UMD Sustainability
There are two types of bins UMD has and provides on Campus?
What are recycling and trash bins?
Wind, water, solar, and biomass are examples of this type of energy
What is renewable energy?
Nature's process of recycling decomposed organic materials into a rich soil
What is Composting?
The average weather conditions of an area measured over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
Three ways to decrease waste
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
An organization on campus that takes leftover dining hall food to local shelters.
What is the Food Recovery Network?
A fossil fuel that is found deep below the earth’s surface and is pumped out.
What is petroleum or oil?
Foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers
What is organic food?
Gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides, in Earth’s lower atmosphere, that trap heat.
What are greenhouse gasses?
This material is recyclable and made of sand
What is Glass?
UMD's Transportation system that has set an action plan to reduce Carbon emissions by 60% in 2025
What is DOTS climate action plan?
The splitting is called fission, the coming together of atoms is called fusion
What is nuclear energy?
When food is disposed of in a landfill it rots and becomes a significant source of this greenhouse gas
What is methane?
The concentrations of greenhouse gases started to rise, around 1860, at the start of this era
What is the Industrial Revolution?
There is a limit to the number of times that aluminum, can be recycled, true or false?
False
All new buildings on campus have to meet a certain code
What is LEED Gold or Silver?
Uneven heating of the earth provides this source of energy
What is Wind Energy?
The process of raising livestock in confinement at high stocking density for purely economic reasons
What is Factory Farming?
The type of gas that is a product of decomposition and is sometimes collected from the landfill to generate electricity
What is methane gas?
The average American person generates approximately this many pounds of trash per day
What is 4 pounds?
Significantly regulated stormwater to protect water quality.
What is stormwater management?
This kind of car has two engines – one is an efficient internal combustion engine, the other is an electric engine.
What is a Hybrid Car?
The number one greenhouse gas that livestock produce
What is Methane?
When scientists use ice cores to investigate what the climate of Earth was like in the past, they are looking for a relationship between temperature and_ .
What is carbon dioxide?
Americans throw away this many Styrofoam cups per year
What is 25,000,000,000 (25 billion)?