Pollution
What is the largest source of oil pollution?
a. oil spills from boats and ships
b. spills at gas stations
c. do-it-yourself oil changes
d. baby oil spills during bath time
c. do it yourself changes
In your house, where is the most water used?
a. Bathroom
b. Kitchen
c. Laundry room
d. Bedroom
a. bathroom
What percent of Earth’s surface is used to grow food?
a. 11%
b. 25%
c. 43%
d. 75%
a. 11%
An aluminum can recycled today will be back on the grocery store shelf in about how long?
a. 90 days
b. 6 months
c. 1 year
d. 2 years
a. 90 days
How many trees does it take to filter 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year?
a. 20
b. 10
c. 5
d. 1
d. 1
What is the average number of cell phones being thrown away?
a. less than 1 million
b. approximately 50 million
c. over 840 million
d. over 5 billion
d. over 5 billion
What fraction of the water used yearly is used by flushing toilets?
a. 1/4
b. 1/3
c. 1/2
c. 3/4
b. 1/3
Nearly 80 million Hershey’s kisses are wrapped each day. This is enough recyclable aluminum foil to cover how many football fields?
a. 10
b. 20
c. 40
d. 80
c. 40
Every ton of newspaper recycled saves enough energy to watch TV for ___ hours.
a. 120 hours
b. 72 hours
c. 31 hours
d. 4 hours
c. 31 hours
Which city has the most ozone pollution?
a. Los Angeles, CA
b. Harrisburg, PA
c. Las Vegas, NV
d. New York, NY
a. LA
Many scientists believe that human pollution is making the world a warmer place. This is called ______.
a. Getting Hotter Syndrome
b. Warm pollution
c. Global heating
d. Global warming
d. global warming
How many diapers are thrown out each day in the United States?
a. 128,000
b. 900,000
c. 3.5 million
d. 49 million
d. 49 million
How many billion soda cans are used each year?
a. 80
b. 40
c. 20
d. 10
a. 80
Enough energy is saved each year by recycling steel to power Los Angeles for about how long?
a. 1 year
b. 3 years
c. 5 years
d. 10 years
d. 10 years
Which activity is something reasonable that you could do at home to help save the Earth?
a. Take fewer baths
b. Drink more milk
c. Only cook in the microwave
d. Turn off the water while you brush your teeth
your teeth
d. turn off the water while you brush your teeth
___ pounds of trash is dumped into the ocean each year.
a. 14 billion
b. 10 million
c. 500,000
d. 2,000
a. 14 billion
The average American office worker uses ___ disposable cups each year.
a. 300
b. 400
c. 500
d. 600
c. 500
How many trees must be cut down to produce each week’s Sunday newspaper?
a. 20,000
b. 100,000
c. 500,000
d. 1 million
c. 500,000
Recycling one ton of cardboard saves this much landfill space.
a. 2 yd3
b. 9 yd3
c. 24 yd3
d. 38 yd3
b. 9 yd3
What American River caught fire in 1969, prompting many pollution control plans?
a. Nile River
b. Cuyahoga River
c. Missippi River
d. Susquehanna River
b. Cuyahoga River
Plastic bags and garbage thrown into the ocean can kill as many as ____ sea creatures each year.
a. 500,000
b. 750,000
c. 1 million
d. 1.5 million
c. 1 million
Every year, Americans throw away enough paper and plastic cups, forks, and spoons to circle the equator how many times?
a. 1
b. 3
c. 5
d. 9
b. 3
Resources like coal and oil will run out some day. Resources that won’t run out are called ____.
a. Reusable
b. Nonrenewable
c. Renewable
d. Magical
c. renewable
Which material never wears out and can be used over and over again?
a. Plastic
b. Metal
c. Glass
d. Paper
c. glass
Nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide cause this type of harmful rain.
a. Dioxidized rain
b. Nitrosulfuric rain
c. Dangerous rain
d. Acid rain
d. Acid rain