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Environmental Awareness Quiz

How much do you know about the environment? Join Miss Duwell's class of characters and take part in a brief quiz to test your knowledge.

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1. Leather
2. Banana
3. Paper
4. Socks
5. Plastic
6. Wood
7. Glass
8. Disposable Diapers
a. 20 years
b. 1-5 years
c. 2-5 weeks
d. 50 years
e. 1 million years
f.  less than 1 year
g. 20-30 years
h. 300-500 years

Match the items in Column A with how long they last in the environment in Column B!

 

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 You can help prevent this kind of pollution
by practicing the 3 R's.
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

1.(b) Each person generates about 3-5 pounds of trash each day.
2.(c ) It takes about 20 trees to keep a baby in disposable diapers from 0-2 years.
3.(c) The average person uses approximately 1,500 aluminum cans a year in this country.
4.(c) Aluminum cans can be recycled billions of times.
5.(b) If you lined up all the styrofoam cups made in one day, it would reach around the Earth.
6. All three (styrofoam, aluminum cans & refrigerators) have contributed to the hole in the ozone.
7.(c) You use most of the drinkable water in your house in the bathroom.

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1. Leather
2. Banana
3. Paper
4. Socks
5. Plastic
6. Wood
7. Glass
8. Disposable Diapers
d. 50 years
c. 2-5 weeks
f.  less than 1 year
b. 1-5 years
g. 20-30 years
a. 20 years
e. 1 million years
h. 300-500 years
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