review session
TRANSCRIPT
Review Session
What Does It Mean to be Green?
ECO EDITION!
Landfills and all that garbage
Climate Change
Pick Your Poison
Carbon Foot Prints
Energy Cycles
100 100 100 100 100
200 200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500
All That Garbage 100 pts.
This type of waste disposal site was originally built to bury our trash while keeping the waste isolated from groundwater, to avoid contact with air, and to keep waste dry. Unfortunatly, these conditions also had unfavorable results.
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Land Fills and All That Garbage 200 pts.
This Lethal and extremely flammable Greenhouse gas can leak out the bottom or over the top of landfills.
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Land Fills and All That Garbage 300 pts.
Reducing the amount of waste is one solution to using landfills less. The motto “Reduce, ______ and ______ shows two other solutions.
(The Three R’s)
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Land Fills and All That Garbage 400 pts.
In McKinley’s Dining hall (where you eat lunch) there are a few types of bins to dispose your trash into. Which bin does your food and napkins go into?
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Land Fills and All That Garbage 500 pts.
In the past 30 years, ________of the planet’s natural resources base have been consumed.
A) One Fourth (25%)
B) Half (50%)
C) One Third (33%)
D) All (100%)
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Climate Change 100
These Gases absorb infra-red radiation in the atmosphere, maintaining Earth's temperature.
Anthropogenic (human) emissions of these gases “house” a warming affect.
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Climate Change 200
Explain the difference between the terms “Global Warming” and “Climate Change”
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Climate Change 300
How many Earths would it take if everyone on the planet lived and wasted as much as the USA?
A) 3.2
B) 5.3
C) 7.2
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Climate Change 400
Name three Greenhouse gases
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Climate Change 500
These indicators of climate change are known for their sensitivity to change in temperature. They advance during climate cooling and retreat during climate warming on moderate time scales....And that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
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Pick Your Poison 100
Many harmful chemicals found in these have been banned in Europe but not yet in the USA.
That’s something to blush about.
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Pick Your Poison 200
In our class we learned that many everyday products contain harmful toxins that begin to affect us negatively with continued exposure and use.
Reading this on the products when shopping can help you avoid products that contain harmful chemicals
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Pick Your Poison 300
This is the governmental agency in the USA that determines if a product is safe or not.
A. NGO(Non-Governmental Organization)B. WWF ( World Wildlife Federation)
C. FDA (Food and Drug Association)
D. TRL (Total Request Live)
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Pick Your Poison 400
These are the three ways that harmful agents like toxins and chemicals can enter our bodies.
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Pick Your Poison 500
1) Name 4 of the 12 “Dirty Dozen” Toxins found in cosmetics.
2) What types of products are they found in?
3) How are they harmful to our bodies
(HINT: Check your folders, you got a handout about this)
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Carbon Foot Prints 100
What is a Carbon Footprint?
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Carbon Foot Prints200
Your Footprint is at zero when you are “Carbon ______”
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Carbon Foot Prints300
Name three ways to shrink your carbon footprint
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Carbon Foot Prints 400
By using ______fuels like water for hydropower and sunlight for solar power, or alternative fuel sources like fuel cells and biomass, we can help conserve our natural resources so they don't run out.
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Carbon Foot Prints500
Oceans are one example of a “Carbon Sink”. They sequester (trap) carbon. Name one other natural carbon sink.
(Hint: what organism “breaths” in CO2)
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Energy Cycles 100
Give an Example of a non-renewable energy source
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Energy Cycles 200
Give an Example of two renewable energy Sources
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Energy Cycles 300
Name 3 products that are made of oil
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Energy Cycles 400
_______ bulbs use 75% less electricity than
regular light bulbs and last years
longer. Replacing them can save
200 kilowatt hours per year,
which translates into roughly $20
per bulb.
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Energy Cycles 500
Draw on the board the energy cycle of an aluminum can. Be as detailed as possible.
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