What is your Sustainability
IQ?
Renewable Energy
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Q: Wind, water, solar, and biomass are examples of this type of energy
A: What is renewable energy ?
Q: A fossil fuel that is found deep below the earth’s surface and is pumped out.
A: What is petroleum or oil?
Q: DAILY DOUBLE: The splitting is called fission, the coming together of atoms is called fusion
A: What is nuclear energy?
Q: Uneven heating of the earth provides this source of energy
A: What is Wind Energy?
Q: This kind of car has two engines: one is an efficient internal combustion engine,
the other is an electric engine.
A: What is a Hybrid Car?
Q: Nature's process of recycling decomposed organic materials into a rich soil
A: What is Composting?
Q: Foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern
synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers
A: What is organic food?
Q: When food is disposed in a landfill it rots and becomes a significant
source of this greenhouse gas
A: What is methane?
Q: The process of raising livestock in confinement at
high stocking density for purely economic reasons
A: What is Factory Farming?
Q: The number one greenhouse gas that livestock produce
A: What is Methane?
Q: UB’s transportation system that keeps 49,590,124 pounds
of carbon dioxide kept out of our atmosphere every year
A: What is the UB Stampede?
Q: UB’s residence hall that is Gold Star LEED certified
A: What is Griener Hall?
Q: An on-campus renewable energy resource that reduces the UB Apartments energy need by
approximately 30%
A: What is UB’s Solar Strand?
Q: UB’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030
A: What is UB’s Climate Action Plan?
Q: DAILY DOUBLE: Tracking system that UB uses to measure sustainability performance
A: What is S.T.A.R.S., or what is the
Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System?
Q: The average weather conditions of an area measured over a long period of time.
A: What is Climate?
Q: Gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxides,
in Earth’s lower atmosphere, that trap heat.
A: What are greenhouse gasses?
Q: The concentrations of greenhouse gases started to rise
around 1860, at the start of this era
A: What is the Industrial Revolution?
Q: The type of gas that is a product of decomposition and is sometimes collected from the landfill
to generate electricity
A: What is methane gas?
Q: When scientists use ice cores to investigate what the climate of Earth was like in the past,
they are looking for a relationship between temperature and________.
A: What is Carbon Dioxide?
Q: Three ways to decrease waste
A: What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
Q: This material is recyclable and made of sand
A: What is Glass?
Q: There is a limit to the amount of times that aluminum, can be recycled,
true or false?
A: False
Q: The average American person generates approximately this many pounds of trash per day
A: What is 4 pounds?
Q: Americans throw away this many Styrofoam cups per year
A: What is 25,000,000,000 (25 billion)?
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