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Earth Day Webquest
Click on the links below to answer the following questions. Follow the directions!
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO ANSWERS QUESTIONS 1-8
http://www.epa.gov/recycle/recycle.html
1. What is the definition of recycling?
2. Name 3 benefits to recycling
3. What percentage of our garbage ends up in a landfill?
CLICK LEARN THE ISSUES
CLICK CLIMATE CHANGE
CLICK BASIC INFORMATION UNDER WHY US THE CLIMATE CHANGE
4. What is climate change?
5. What are some changes that different areas are seeing?
6. How are humans responsible?
GO BACK
CLICK WHAT YOU CAN DO UNDER WHAT CAN WE DO ABOU TIT
7. Name 3 things that YOU PERSONALLY can do at home to reduce GHG
emissions
GO BACK
CLICK ON THE AREA WE LIVE IN ON THE MAP UNDER WHAT ARE THE
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE WHERE I LIVE
8. Name 5 things that impact where we live and include data to support your
answers
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO ANSWER QUESTIONS 9-16
http://www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html
9. How fast does an aluminum can return to the shelves?
10. Recycling 1 can is equivalent to how much gasoline?
11. How may trees are cut down to produce the Sunday paper?
12. How many trees could we save each year if every American recycled 1
newspaper?
13. How many trees does the average American use in a year?
14. How many plastic bottles are used every hour by Americans?
15. How long does it take a glass bottle to decompose?
16. How much garbage do Americans throw out that can be composted?
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO ANSWER QUESTIONS 17- 19
http://www.benefits-of-recycling.com/definitionofcomposting/
17. What is the definition of composting?
18. What 4 factors impact the rate of composting?
19. Outline the steps of how composting works.
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO ANSWER QUESTION 20
http://epa.gov/recycle/composting.html
20. Why is composting important? (incorporate what you have learned
throughout this webquest to answer this question in at least 1 paragraph)