Conservation Practice

What does RECYCLING mean?

• throw away

• give things to other people

• make new things out of old ones

• using things again and again

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What should you do with your old clothes?

• burn them

• throw them into rubbish bin

• give to other people

• nothing

Which of the following items DOES belong in the blue recycling cart?

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If you use a plastic bag for groceries one day and then make a kite out of it the next, the bag has been ___________.

• Reduced

• Reused

• Recycled

• Reversed

If you choose to take reusable bags to the grocery store instead of getting the plastic bags provided, you have _______ the waste you generate.

• Reduced

• Reused

• Recycled

• Reversed

It’s better for the environment to use a durable, washable, refillable water bottle THAN it is to buy a case of plastic water bottles, drink the water, and recycle the empty plastic bottles.

• True

• False

Why is recycling so important?

• The world's resources are unlimited.

• The world's resources are unprotected.

• The world's resources are illegitimate.

• The world's resources are limited.

What are Natural Resources?

• Things created by people

• Things destroyed by people

• Materials from the environment that are used by people

• Everything inside your house

If something is Renewable it is

• Regularly replaces or replenished by nature

• Can only be used once or cannot be replaced by nature

• The Earth

• Our solar system

If something is nonrenewable then it

• Can only be used once or cannot be replaced by nature

• Regularly replaced or replenished by nature

• Is the electricity in your house

• Can be bought with money