New York, New York
The island on which Central Park is located
What is Manhattan?
(Contains 1.69 million people, the densest populated city in the United States)
The main source of electricity in the United States (and most of the world)
What are Fossil Fuels.
The term for the distance food travels before being consumed
What are Food Miles?
What are incinerators?
(horrible for the atmosphere as they burn gasoline)
The three-word phrase that ends with recycle
What is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?
Median home cost in New York City
(within $100,000)
What is 2.2 million?
(while the median salary is a mere $51,000)
The number of million Kilowatt hours of electricity produced for NYC annually
What is 140,407 Million!!
The type of gardens that can be created at home to provide for one or their family
What are self-sustaining gardens?
What is methane gas?
(28 to 36 times more effective)
Three-step process of recycling
What are collection and processing, manufacturing, and purchasing new items made from recycled materials?
True or False: There is a correlation between mental health issues and living in big cities
What is False?
(“urban images were associated with greater activation of the “emotional brain” … abnormalities in these brain regions have been commonly associated with mental disorders such as PTSD”)
The chemical found in aerosol cans in the 1970s proven to directly damage the ozone layer
What are Chlorofluorocarbons
Every year that passes means sustainability has to be achieved for _________ people
What is 100 million?
The GHG emissions for this many cars driven for the entirety of 2019 was equivalent to the methane emissions in US landfills
What is 21.6 million passenger vehicles?
(The data suggests that although these values are equivalent, the gas produced at landfills has a more significant effect on the Ozone layer)
Some common products that are often recycled
What are Aluminum cans, Car bumpers, Carpeting, Cereal boxes, Comic books, Egg cartons, Glass containers, Laundry detergent bottles, Motor oil, Nails, Newspapers, Paper towels, Steel products, Trash bags?
These "islands" are created from the construction of large buildings out of cinderblock, brick, etc.
What are heat islands?
(the temperature in these areas can be up to 7°F higher than the surrounding suburban areas)
What PM stands for, as in PM 2.5
(by-product of burning fossil fuels)
What is particulate matter?
(affects the respiratory system of those who congest it through the atmosphere)
In 2019 $___________ billion was spent on just importing food from foreign nations
(between 50 and 200)
What is 151 billion?
The three main types of pollution
What are air, physical, and noise
Some ways that recycling is effective
What are preventing the waste of potentially useful materials and reducing the consumption of fresh raw materials, reducing energy use, air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling)?
Some ways we can reduce the negative impacts of "heat islands" created by the construction of buildings like those in NYC
What is increasing tree numbers, creating green roofs, installing cool pavements?
What are hydropower, solar power, wind, and biomass?
Some of the approaches we are making to combat "food miles" and heavy reliance on imports
What are self-sustaining gardens, buying local, reducing reliance on fossil fuels?
Health symptoms demonstrated by those who live in a "noise-polluted" area
What are stress related illnesses, high blood pressure, speech interference, hearing loss, sleep disruption, and lost productivity?
Is recycling a way to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, create jobs for those who need them, lower energy consumption and reuse materials that will otherwise sit in landfills for years