What You Know About The Environment?
20 Questions
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See what you know about the environment!
Questions and Answers
- 1.What have you learned about your education toward the enviroment through this quiz? Explain.
- 2.How much waste is produced yearly?
- A.
310 Million lbs.
- B.
201 Million lbs.
- C.
220 Million lbs.
- D.
140 Million lbs.
- 3.The U.S produces what percent of waste produced yearly?
- A.
49%
- B.
81%
- C.
57%
- D.
55%
- 4.About how many landfill are in the world?
- A.
3,000
- B.
3,500
- C.
4,700
- D.
4,000
- 5.How old is the worlds oldest tree?
- A.
10,000
- B.
5,852
- C.
4,600
- D.
4,200
- 6.Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Recycling one Printout of the New York Times can save how many trees?
- A.
70,000
- B.
65,000
- C.
80,000
- D.
75,000
- 8.About how many paper bags does one supermarket go through in one year?
- A.
50,800,000
- B.
60,500,000
- C.
70,097,064
- D.
54,976,860
- 9.It saves water washing plates by hand.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.How much cold air escapes when you open a fridge?
- A.
27%
- B.
30%
- C.
81%
- D.
40%
- 11.How fast are rainforest being cut down?
- A.
500 Acres per minute
- B.
305 Acres per minute
- C.
195 Acres per minute
- D.
620 Acres per minute
- 12.How long does it take for a modern glass bottle to decompose?
- A.
4,800 years
- B.
2,950 years
- C.
4,000 years
- D.
3,970 years
- 13.How much trash does one person in the U.S.A. produce per year?
- A.
2,098 lbs.
- B.
1,609 lbs.
- C.
1,946 lbs.
- D.
967 lbs.
- 14.On 1 mile off highways how much waste will you see?
- A.
2,063 pieces if litter
- B.
984 pieces if litter
- C.
1,842 pieces if litter
- D.
1,457 pieces if litter
- 15.How much of earths waters is actually usable?
- A.
1%
- B.
2%
- C.
3%
- D.
7%
- 16.The earth has been around for over 600,000 years, but pollution has only been around for _______ years.
- 17.True or false: Factories and car fumes are two of the leading causes of pollution.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.Global warming one of the most dangerous global killers?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.Around how many sea animals are killed by pollution yearly?
- A.
200,000
- B.
150,000
- C.
100,000
- D.
300,000
- 20.About what percent of America's lakes are too polluted for fishing or wildlife?
- A.
38%
- B.
40%
- C.
20%
- D.
81%
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