TEST YOUR
"TRASH TRIVIA" SKILLS
Talk about 20 questions! Listed bebw are
20 questions guaranteed to test your know
ledge of garbage and all other types of
environmental tnreats. Once you take this
environmental IQ test, and review all the
answers( you'll discover that this pop quiz is
no trivial pursuit!
Perhaps the biggest incentive for taking the
quiz, is that WXll-Newswatch 12 will oe
selecting questions from this list for their
EARTH QUIZ QUESTIONS OF THE DAY
contest coming up during Earth Week,
April 19-23.
If you are the first person to call in
with the correct answer to WXII's
Earth Quiz questions during the
Noon and 6:00 p.m. news, you
could win $100 cash! So study
hard!
TRASH TRIVIA QUESTIONS
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1 . The average American generates how
many pounds of garbage a day?
a. 1 c. 6
b. 3.5 d. 10
2. In the past 50 years, the amount of
waste discarded per person in the US
has:
a. doubled
b. stayed the same
c. decreased
d. increased 10 times
3. Each day, Americans throw away
millions pounds of edible food.
a. 1 c. 400
b. 100 d. 900
4. Which of these decompose in the landfill
within five years?
a. newspaper
b. carrot
c. steel can
d. none of the above
6. What percent of waste in landfHIs is
pqper?
a. 72 c. 28
b. 12 d. 38
7. One leaky toilet can waste more than
gallons of water a day.
a. 14 c. 50
* b. 80 d. 3
8. It's okay to throw an apple core out the
car window because it's biodegradable.
a. True b. False
9. How much energy is saved by making a
new aluminum can from an old one?
a. 95%
b. the equivalent energy it takes to
keep a 100 watt bulb burning for
3 1/2 hours
c. not a significant amount
? d. both a and b
10. All plastic bottles marked with a number
code inside the recycling symbol are
recyclable . ; ^
a. True b. False
1 1 . Burning solid waste to produce electricity
is called .
a. waste-to-energy
b. trasholitic converting
c. incineration
d. garbage generating capability
1 2. The U.S. accounts for 6 percent of the
world's population, consumes 50 percent of its
resources and produces percent of its
waste.
a. 32 c. 75
b. 50 d. 65
1 3. Grasscycling is
a. letting the clips fall where they
may
b. a good way to get a natural
fertilizer for no cost!
c. riding your mountain bike on the lawn
d. both a and b
5. If landfilled diapers were stretched end
to-end, they would reach from to
7 times in JUST ONE YEAR.
a. Des Moines to Albuquerque
b. the equator to the North Pole
c. the earth to the moon
d. New York to London
1 4. The science of garbology is excavating
in landfills to learn what happens to
garbage after it's been in the landfill for
several years.
a. True b. False
15. Using washable plates instead of dispos
able ones is an example of what?
a. martyrdom
b. being old fashioned
c. recycling
d.* reducing waste
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1 6. New glass containers are made
from at least 30% recycled glass.
a. True
b. False
1 7. Which is preferable to use when
shopping at the grocery store?
a. paper bdg
b. plastic baa
c. reusable shopping bag
d. all of the above --
1 8. The legal consequences of throwing
litter out a car window and being
caught are:
a. maximum fine of $500
b. having to attend litter prevention
education classes
c. one point on your driver's
license
d. both a and c
1 9. One gallon of motor oil can contaminate
how many gallons of water?
a 1
b. 10
c. 100.
d. 1 million
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d. all of the above
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