ENVIRONMENT QUIZ

SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL STOURBRIDGE & DISTRICT

ENVIRONMENT QUIZHOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT?

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CLOSING DATE: 28 FEBRUARY 2021


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ENVIRONMENT QUIZ ROUND 1

1.WHAT DATE IS EARTH DAY CELEBRATED ON?

2.WASTING LESS FOOD IS A WAY TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRUE OR FALSE?

3. HOW MANY CENTIMETRES DID SEAS RISE GLOBALLY IN THE LAST CENTURY?

4. THE MAJORITY OF SCIENTISTS BELIEVE CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL AND CAUSED BY HUMANS TRUE OR FALSE?

5. WHICH COUNTRY EMITS MOST CARBON DIOXIDE?

6. WHAT PERCENTAGE OF GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ARE FROM TRANSPORT 14% 33% or 70%

7. WHICH ECONOMIC SECTOR EMITS LARGEST PERCENTAGE OF GAS EMISSIONS?

a) ELECTRICITY AND HEAT PRODUCTIONb) TRANSPORTc) INDUSTRY

8. SINCE 1880, HOW MUCH HAS THE AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RISEN BY IN FAHRENHEIT?

9. WHERE DOES THE MAJORITY OF PLASTIC WASTE END UP?

10. HOW MANY MILLIONS OF TONS OF PLASTIC ARE DUMPED IN OCEANS YEARLY?




1. THERE ARE MANY ALTERNATIVES TO SINGLE USE PLASTICS -TRUE OR FALSE?

2. HOW MANY MARINE SPECIES ARE HARMED BY PLASTIC POLLUTION?

3. WHAT PERCENTAGE OF ITS PLASTIC DOES USA RECYCLE?

4. THERE ARE 51 TRILLION MICROPLASTIC BEADS IN THE OCEANS TODAY

TRUE OR FALSE?

5. BY WHAT YEAR WILL PLASTIC OUTWEIGH FISH IN THE OCEANS POUND FOR POUND?

6. NAME TOP THREE TOP CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES TO WORLD PLASTIC POLLUTION

7. WHAT PERCENTAGE OF CARBON DIOXIDE IS ABSORBED BY THE OCEANS?

8. HOW LONG IS A PLASTIC BAG USED FOR BEFORE BEING THROWN AWAY?

9. 71% OF THE EARTH IS COVERED BY WATER, WHAT PERCENTAGE IS FRESH WATER?

10. MORE THAN HALF OF THE BREATHABLE OXYGEN IN THE WORLD IS FROM WHERE?




1. WHICH COUNTRY HAS NOT VOWED TO USE ONLY 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY BY 2050?

AFGHANISTAN VIETNAM CANADA

2. WHICH COUNTRY HAS NOT RUN COMPLETELY ON RENEWABLES?

3. RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRIES ARE ON THE RISE - TRUE OR FALSE?

4. NAME THREE FORMS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY

5. USING MORE RENEWABLE ENERGY METHODS WOULD INCREASE OVERALL AMOUNT OF LAND NEEDED FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION - TRUE OR FALSE?

6. HOW MANY COUNTRIES COULD RUN ENTIRELY ON WIND, SOLAR AND

WATERPOWER BY 2050?

7. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE BOOK BY RACHEL CARSON THAT SET THESTAGE FOR GOVERNMENTS TO BECOME ENVIRONMENTALLY AWARE?

8. IN 2016, THE PARIS AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED ON EARTH DAY – TRUE OR FALSE?

9. HOW MANY YEARS DOES IT TAKE AN ALUMINIUM CAN TO DECOMPOSE?

10. IF YOU RE-CYCLE A TONNE OF PAPER – HOW MANY TREES DO YOU SAVE?




1. ONE RECYCLED TIN CAN RUN A TV FOR HOW LONG?

2. RE-CYCLING 2 GLASS BOTTLES SAVES ENOUGH ENERGY TO BOIL WATER FOR HOW MANY CUPS OF TEA?

3. WHERE DOES MOST OF THE ENERGY USED ON EARTH TODAY COME FROM?

4. HOW MUCH WATER ON AVERAGE DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE A PAIR OF JEANS?

5. HOW MANY SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BOTTLES ARE USED DAILY IN THE UK?

6. WHAT HAPPENED AT 1PM ON 7TH JUNE 2017 IN UK?

7. WHICH COUNTRY GENERATES THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF SOLAR POWER?

8. WHAT PERCENTAGE OF OUR WILDFLOWER MEADOWS HAVE BEEN LOST SINCE WW2?

9. HOW MUCH LONGER DO ORCAS LIVE IN THE WILD COMPARED TO CAPTIVITY?

10. HOW MANY PAIRS OF HEN HARRIERS NESTED IN 2016?




1. HOW MANY MUSCLES ARE THERE IN AN ELEPHANT’S TRUNK?

2. HOW MUCH PLASTIC WASTE DOES THE UK GENERATE ANNUALLY?

3. WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON FINAL WASTE TREATMENT IN THE UK?

4. HOW MUCH ENERGY CAN YOU SAVE BY REDUCING YOUR HOME TEMPERATURE BY 1’?

5. URSUS MARITIMUS IS BETTER KNOWN AS WHICH ANIMAL?

6. HOW MANY TIGERS ARE LEFT IN THE WILD?

7. WHAT IS THE LARGEST ENCLOSED BODY OF WATER ON EARTH?

8. INTO WHICH OCEAN DOES THE AMAZON FLOW?

9. WHERE IN YOUR HOME WOULD YOU INSTALL A HIPPO?

10. WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON GAS IN THE ATMOSPHERE?

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