How Much Do You Really Know About The Environment?

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3. The average American creates a little under five times the amount of trash that an average global person creates.

True

False

4. The USA wastes more electric energy than Japan uses.

True

False

5. The average person worldwide uses _____ gallons of water daily, while the average American uses _____ gallons of water every day.

5, 100

7, 54

10, 80

3, 56

6. In what year do scientists think that the North Pole will be completely melted in the summer? In what year do they believe that it will be melted year-round?

2055, 2090

2019, 2029

2035, 2070

2012, 2027

7. ______ plastic bottles are thrown away every five minutes in the USA alone.

2 million

3 million

50 thousand

100 thousand

8. How many gallons of water does it take to virtually produce one pair of jeans?

39

200

2,900

3,990

9. How much waste in landfills is compostable?

33%

40%

5%

78%

10. Just one gallon of paint or motor oil spilled outside can pollute ____ gallons of drinking water.

250

2,500

25,000

250,000

11. Check all of the things that you can do to make your composter work faster.

Add some salt to help break down material faster

Add some water

Stir it occasionally

Don't add too much material at one time

Put it in a sunny place

Buy worms and put them in

Put in something slightly naturally acidic, such as a lemon or an orange peel

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12. What can you put in your composter?

Things with oil on them (such as pizza boxes)

Animal fur (such as from when you brush your dog or cat)

Eggshells

Used tissues

Undyed, organically- made, recycled paper bags

Any papers, with or without printing on them (but not magazines or other waxed paper)

Undyed or untreated cotton products

Post-its

Old photos

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13. In which states can you get a refund for recycling plastic and/or metal bottles/cans? Hint: there are only 7. All of them are on the list below.

Arizona

California

Connecticut

Georgia

Hawaii

Illinios

Iowa

Kentucky

Maine

Massachusetts

Michigan

Missouri

Nebraska

New Hampshire

New York

North Carolina

Oregon

Tennessee

Utah

Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

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