Effects To The Environment
Wise Consumerism
Consumerism
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Factors and environment
100

Your choices as a consumer affect the _____, _____, and ______ that you share with everybody

Air, Water, and Land

100

As consumers, why should you go green?

To help preserve the environment and reduce harmful things from affecting the environment.

100

What does GDP stand for?

Gross Domestic Product. 

100

Encourages you to buy a product or service because everyone else is. 

What is bandwagon effect?

100

The choices we make as comsumers can reflect our ____. Clothes represent what our beliefs and values are.

Identity 

200

Ink is made from organic compounds. The manufacturer of organic compounds emits pollutants such as __________

Sulphur Oxides

200

What are 3 advantages of being a wise consumer?

Save money, Protect your health, Protect the environment

200

What does GDP mean?

GDP measures the amount of wealth a country's economy generates.

200

Uses strong emotional language that connects with your fears and desires. 

What is emotional appeal?

200

Comsumers __________ is the focus for most sellers. Its important to protect consumers.

Health and Safety

300

How does manufacturing plastic affect the environment?

Manufacturing plastic releases greenhouse gases and toxins that can combine with rainwater, making acidic rain.

300

What does it mean to be a wise consumer?

Make better decisions about the goods and services you buy. Awareness, research and action can help you become a wise consumer.
300

Who has the largest GDP per capita in North America?

The US has the largest GDP per capita in North America.

300

Uses celebrities or experts to speak for a product

What are testimonials 

300

When you buy a product, you connect to a chain of people and other _____

Jobs

400

What makes up at least a 1/4th of all plastic waste in the US?

Packaging and plastic containers

400

How to reduce plastic waste?

Cardboard packaging, reusing plastics, and recycling can all contribute to reducing plastic waste.

400

Both Canada and the US have legislation that affects what advertising can and can't say. For example, advertising cant make ____ or ____ claims about _____ and ______

False or misleading 

Products and Services

400

Relates the product or service to words or images that promise everything, but deliver little or nothing.

What are glittering generalities

400

How much garbage is thrown out weekly in the USA?

A million tonnes, or 2 billion pounds.

500

Consumers demand for products containing ____. Which contributes to decisions that restrict environmental harm


Copper 

500

Environmental organizations, such as _______, use _____ as one way to take action on issues that concern them

Greenpeace and Boycotts

500

Both governemnts in the US and Canada have banned leaded ____, because of the harmful effects of lead on human health and the enviorment

Gasoline

500

Relates a product or service to the experience of ordinary folks.

What is plain folks appeal
500

Your choices as a consumer also effect the air, water, and land that you share with everybody

Enviorment