Re- Quiz

When a store clerk offers you a plastic bag for just one small item, what can you do to refuse waste?

• Take the bag anyway, even if you don't need it.

• Ask for two plastic bags instead of one.

• Politely say, 'No thanks, I can carry it!' or use your own reusable bag.

• Throw the item on the floor.

You have an old, empty glass jar from peanut butter. What's a great way to reuse it?

• Throw it in the regular garbage.

• Break it into tiny pieces.

• Wash it out and use it to store pencils or hold flowers.

• Bury it in the backyard.

After you finish a plastic milk jug, if your town allows it, putting it in a special bin to be made into new things is an example of what?

• Reducing

• Reusing

• Recycling

• Refusing

You have an old pair of jeans with a big tear in the knee. Instead of throwing them away, you cut them up to make cool denim patches for a new backpack. This is an example of:

• Regifting

• Refurbishing

• Repurposing

• Repairing

Buying a large box of cereal instead of many tiny, individual boxes helps to reduce what?

• The taste of the cereal.

• The amount of packaging waste.

• The time it takes to eat breakfast.

• The number of commercials on TV.

Someone gave you a board game for your birthday, but you already have it and don't need two. You give the brand-new, unopened game to your cousin who loves board games. This is called:

• Repairing

• Regifting

• Repurposing

• Refusing

Your grandma has an old wooden chair that looks worn out and wobbly. She sands it down, paints it a new color, and fixes the loose leg so it looks brand new again. This is an example of:

• Reusing

• Regifting

• Refurbishing

• Recycling

Before you buy a new toy, you stop and think: 'Do I really need this? How will it affect the Earth when I'm done with it?' This important step is called:

• Repairing

• Rethinking

• Recycling

• Refusing

Your favorite bike has a flat tire. Instead of buying a whole new bike, you get a patch kit and fix the hole in the tire yourself. This is an example of:

• Refusing

• Repairing

• Repurposing

• Reducing

Which of these 're-' words means using something again for a different purpose than its original one?

• Reuse

• Repurpose

• Regift

• Reduce