Campus Conservation
True or false: Using a sink faucet for 2 minutes usually uses up more water than a 2 minute shower.
What is false?
The color bin paper and cardboard usually goes in (Texas).
What is the blue bin?
The gas trees absorb to fight climate change.
What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
A resource plants need in order to grow (besides water).
What is sunlight?
Butterflies start as this.
What are caterpillars?
Turning off these when you leave a room helps conserve electricity.
What are the lights?
True or False: Putting trash in recycling makes the whole bin dirty.
What is true?
Type of bulbs that are more energy-efficient than incandescent ones.
What are LED bulbs?
Most plants grow during this season.
What is spring?
Owls function at night.
What is nocturnal?
Using resources without harming future generations.
What is sustainability?
This is the America's recycle month.
What is November?
The environmental symbol that is a triangle made of arrows.
What is the recycling symbol?
Plants make this and we breathe it.
What is oxygen?
In the winter, animals like squirrels and bears gather food because of this.
What is hibernation?
When students bring reusable water bottles or containers, they help reduce this.
What is single-use waste?
The 3R’s for sustainability.
What is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?
When computers use energy even when they’re turned off but still plugged in.
What is phantom power?
The process where plants use sunlight to make food.
What is Photosynthesis?
The mascot for reducing plastic waste in oceans.
What is a sea turtle?
When students ride scooters or walk instead of using cars for short distances.
What is sustainable transportation?
An item that is recycled over 1085 million tons each year.
What is steel?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
The direction the sun rises in.
What is East?
Birds go to warmer places in the winter.
What is migration?