Sustainability quiz with notes

Which of the following is a fossil fuel?

• Wind
• Coal
• Solar
• Biomass

What does renewable mean?

• to protect from loss

• able to be replaced

• to put money or resources toward something

• to move forward

• to increase to the greatest possible amount

Which is NOT a way to decrease your ecological footprint?

• Eating less meat and processed foods
• Walking or biking to school
• Turning off electricity and water when you're not using it. 
• Driving a large car around for fun.

Your Ecological or Carbon Footprint is the ratio of 

• the amount of resources you use to the amount of resources available
• how many people there are on earth to how much space we have on earth
• people to cars
• robots available to robots needed

What is NOT a sustainable practice?

• recycling
• reducing
• reusing
• buying 

The three areas of sustainability are

• Physical, Economical, Political

• Environmental, Social, Physical

• Economical, Environmental, Social

• Physical, Political, Social

Which of these things are you most likely to NOT find in a sustainable home?

• LED Lightbulbs
• Low-Flow Toilets & Showers
• A wood burning stove
• A Hummer (SUV) in the garage

A set of moral principles or values held by a person or a society is called

• ethics
• culture
• justice
• biocentrism

The variety of life in the world, a habitat, or an ecosystem

• biodiversity
• ecosystem
• mutations
• diversity

Our effect on the environment - a combination of what we consume, and the waste we produce.

• Ecological Fingerprint
• Ecological Footprint
• Ecological Image
• Ecological History