What is your Sustainability IQ?

1. What is your Sustainability IQ?

3. Q: Wind, water, solar, and biomass are examples of this type of energy

4. A: What is renewable energy ?

5. Q: A fossil fuel that is found deep below the earth’s surface and is pumped out.

6. A: What is petroleum or oil?

7. Q: DAILY DOUBLE: The splitting is called fission, the coming together of atoms is called fusion

8. A: What is nuclear energy?

9. Q: Uneven heating of the earth provides this source of energy

10. A: What is Wind Energy?

11. Q: This kind of car has two engines: one is an efficient internal combustion engine, the other is an electric engine.

12. A: What is a Hybrid Car?

13. Q: Nature's process of recycling decomposed organic materials into a rich soil

14. A: What is Composting?

15. Q: Foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers

16. A: What is organic food?

17. Q: When food is disposed in a landfill it rots and becomes a significant source of this greenhouse gas

18. A: What is methane?

19. Q: The process of raising livestock in confinement at high stocking density for purely economic reasons

20. A: What is Factory Farming?

21. Q: The number one greenhouse gas that livestock produce

22. A: What is Methane?

23. Q: UB’s transportation system that keeps 49,590,124 pounds of carbon dioxide kept out of our atmosphere every year

24. A: What is the UB Stampede?

25. Q: UB’s residence hall that is Gold Star LEED certified

26. A: What is Griener Hall?

27. Q: An on-campus renewable energy resource that reduces the UB Apartments energy need by approximately 30%

28. A: What is UB’s Solar Strand?

29. Q: UB’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030

30. A: What is UB’s Climate Action Plan?

31. Q: DAILY DOUBLE:Tracking system that UB uses to measure sustainability performance

32. A: What is S.T.A.R.S., or what is the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System?

33. Q:The average weather conditions of an area measured over a long period of time.

34. A: What is Climate?

35. Q:Gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxides, in Earth’s lower atmosphere, that trap heat.

36. A: What are greenhouse gasses?

37. Q:The concentrations of greenhouse gases started to rise around 1860, at the start of this era

38. A: What is the Industrial Revolution?

39. Q:The type of gas that is a product of decomposition and is sometimes collected from the landfill to generate electricity

40. A: What is methane gas?

41. 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________.

42. A: What is Carbon Dioxide?

43. Q: Three ways to decrease waste

44. A: What is reduce, reuse, recycle?

45. Q: This material is recyclable and made of sand

46. A: What is Glass?

47. Q: There is a limit to the amount of times that aluminum, can be recycled, true or false?

48. A: False

49. Q: The average American person generates approximately this many pounds of trash per day

50. A: What is 4 pounds?