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Earth Day Quizziz

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the 3 Rs?

a)

Recycle, Reuse, Reproduce

b)

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

c)

Recycle, Repurpose, Reproduce

d)

Recycle, Reduce, Reproduce

2.

Cooked fruits and vegetables go in the composter.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

You can put a potato chip bag in a recycle bin.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Which of these takes the longest to degrade?

a)

Fruit

b)

Cardboard

c)

Plastic

d)

Wood

5.

Which of these shouldn't go in the trash?

a)

Dirty paper towels/napkins

b)

Batteries

c)

Ziploc Bags

d)

Candy Wrappers

e)

A moldy sandwich

6.

How many gallons of water do you use when you take a five minute shower?

a)

5 gallons

b)

9.5 gallons

c)

12.5 gallons

d)

40 gallons

7.

What once covered 14% of the earth’s land area, but by 1991 over half had been destroyed?

a)

Deserts

b)

Oceans

c)

Rainforests

d)

Polar Ice Caps

e)

Grasslands

8.

True or false: There is a mass of floating plastic in the ocean that is larger than France, Spain and Germany combined.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

BAGUETTE

9.

Which country produces the world’s largest quantity of municipal waste per person at 5/6 of a ton?

a)

China

b)

Brazil

c)

U.S

d)

Australia

e)

Germany

10.

Which uses less water, washing a full load of dishes by hand or in the dishwasher?

a)

By hand

b)

In the dishwasher

c)

They both use the same amount

11.

What type of supermarket bag is more ecofriendly, paper or plastic?

a)

Paper, cause I like trees!

b)

Plastic, cause it's transparent!

c)

Neither, reusable bags rule!

12.

Appliances that are turned off don't use any electricity.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

For glass bottles to decompose it takes...

a)

400 years

b)

500 years

c)

600 years

d)

No one knows

14.

How much money do you save a year by replacing an incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light?

a)

$1.00

b)

$5.00

c)

$30.00

d)

$50.00

e)

$100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00

15.

During a road trip, you save more fuel by going fast and getting to the place sooner than you do by going at the speed limit.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

What is causing climate change?

a)

The Butcher Effect

b)

The Greenhouse Effect

c)

The Butterfly Effect

d)

The Heat Paradox

17.

Climate change is melting the polar ice caps. Which animals are affected by this? Select all that apply.

a)

Polar Bears

b)

Lions

c)

Seals

d)

Salmon

e)

Penguins

18.

Climate Change will hurt (and is hurting) so many generations, present and future. What do you do to help? Select all that apply.

a)

Recycle

b)

Use less electricity/water

c)

Use as little plastic as I can, including using reusable bags, etc.

d)

I walk, I use my bike, and/or drive a hybrid/electirc car

e)

Try to spread the word, trying to convince people to do all of these.