Energy Conservation
80% of the world's electricity comes from these (coal, oil, and natural gas).
What are fossil fuels?
The largest producer of electric cars
What is Tesla?
Cutting down trees for agriculture or urban development
What is deforestation?
This kind of trash is very harmful to marine life.
What is plastic?
Manufacturing, mining, and construction consumes lots of this.
What is energy or natural resources?
These types of lightbulbs save energy.
What are LED bulbs?
Transportation accounts for 24% of the world's ________ (think greenhouse gas).
What are CO2 emissions?
Term meaning that animals lose their homes when trees are cut down.
What is habitat loss?
What are the "3 R's" of waste removal.
What are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
Manufacturers like Honda are trying to lower their _________ ___________. (think "leave no trace.")
What is a "carbon footprint?"
What are solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, biomass, tidal?
This type of transportation includes buses, trains, and subways and reduces greenhouse gases.
What is public transportation?
This industry occupies 50% of the Earth's habitable land.
What is agriculture?
About 19% of waste is ____________, or changed and used again.
What is recycled?
This industry raises animals that produce a lot of methane (ew).
What is dairy, beef, or cattle?
What we can do to conserve energy when doing laundry.
What is air-drying clothes, doing a full load, or using laundry strips?
Rent this type of car for a road trip to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
What is a hybrid or electric car?
70% of earth's population is predicted to be living in a city by this year.
What is 2050?
Using your own shopping bags is an example of this "R."
What is "reuse?"
Manufacturing, mining, and construction cause air, water, and soil ___________ .
What is pollution?
What are buildings?
Mr. Coats uses this #1 eco-friendly transportation to commute to work every day.
What is a bicycle?
This means that the quality is going down. Deforestation helps cause the ______ of the soil.
What is degradation?
This "island" is about twice the size of France.
What is the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch?"
This industry causes 8% of global CO2 emissions (sidewalks, building foundations).
What is cement?