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Test your knowledge on renewable energy and sustainability concepts with this engaging quiz. Explore diverse topics such as wind energy, petroleum, nuclear energy, hybrid cars, composting, organic food production, and greenhouse gases. Discover the significance of sustainability initiatives at UB, including the Stampede transportation system, LEED-certified buildings, and the Climate Action Plan aiming for carbon neutrality by 2030. This quiz aims to enhance awareness about environmentally-friendly practices and the importance of reducing waste through methods like recycling.
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Q: Wind, water, solar, and biomass are examples of this type of energy
Q: A fossil fuel that is found deep below the earth’s surface and is pumped out.
Q: DAILY DOUBLE: The splitting is called fission, the coming together of atoms is called fusion
Q: Uneven heating of the earth provides this source of energy
Q: This kind of car has two engines: one is an efficient internal combustion engine, the other is an electric engine.
Q: Nature's process of recycling decomposed organic materials into a rich soil
Q: Foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers
Q: When food is disposed in a landfill it rots and becomes a significant source of this greenhouse gas
Q: The process of raising livestock in confinement at high stocking density for purely economic reasons
Q: The number one greenhouse gas that livestock produce
Q: UB’s transportation system that keeps 49,590,124 pounds of carbon dioxide kept out of our atmosphere every year
Q: UB’s residence hall that is Gold Star LEED certified
Q: An on-campus renewable energy resource that reduces the UB Apartments energy need by approximately 30%
Q: UB’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030
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.
Q:Gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxides, in Earth’s lower atmosphere, that trap heat.
Q:The concentrations of greenhouse gases started to rise around 1860, at the start of this era
Q:The type of gas that is a product of decomposition and is sometimes collected from the landfill to generate electricity
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________.
Q: There is a limit to the amount of times that aluminum, can be recycled, true or false?
Q: The average American person generates approximately this many pounds of trash per day
