Sustainable
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Turning off these when you leave a room is a simple, daily way to conserve electricity.
What are the lights?
The process by which plants make their own food using the energy from light
What is photosynthesis?
The natural process in which certain gases in the atmosphere trap heat and warm the Earth
What is the greenhouse effect?
3 alternative forms of energy.
What is solar, wind, water?
The proper way to dispose of food scraps that cannot be reused or recycled.
What is compost?
The 3 pillars (3 P's) of sustainability.
What are People, Planet, Profit (or Environmental, Social, Economic)?
The movement of water between the oceans, atmosphere, land, and living things.
What is the water cycle?
The greenhouse gas that cattle produce.
What is methane?
This inexhaustible energy source generates power by harnessing the heat from deep within the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
This universal symbol features three chasing arrows.
What is the recycling symbol or morbius loop?
Buying one large bottle of juice instead of five small ones aligns with this first and most important "R" of the three Rs.
What is reduce?
Exotic or new species to an area that can easily adapt, grow, and outcompete native species is known as this.
What is an invasive species?
The definition of a carbon footprint.
What is the total amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by an individual's, organization's, or product's actions?
Recycling one aluminum can save enough energy to run a TV for _____ hours.
a) 0
b) 3
c) 5
d) 10
What is 3 hours?
The biggest trash producing country in the world.
What is the United States of America?
Taking exactly what you intend to eat, rather than loading up a plate and throwing away the leftovers, reduces this.
What is food waste?
The age of the world's oldest tree.
a) 1 week
b) 2,600 years
c) 4,800 years
d) 6,300 years
What is 4,800 years?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of this type of fuel.
What is fossil fuel?
This kind of farm typically takes place indoors and involves stacking crops vertically in layers or on inclined surfaces.
What is a vertical farm?
The name of the large floating trash pile in the ocean.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
Name two tree free alternatives to paper.
What is agricultural waste (sugarcane, trimmings, straw), fast growing grass, textile/fabric scrap, hemp, or stone paper?
The (approximate) percentage of mammals that are currently in danger of extinction
a) 6%
b) 18%
c) 27%
c) 33%
What is 27%?
This gas is the primary human-caused driver of global warming and is primarily released by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The year the first electric car was built.
What is 1888?
The country with the best recycling rate.
What is Germany?