Transcript A Did you know? - BC Sustainable Energy Association

Who wants to be a…
Climate Change
Superhero?
Guy Dauncey 2007
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How to play
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Teams of 4/5 – choose a team name
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All teams will be asked each question
to test your environmental knowledge
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Hold up your card with the answer on
(A,B,C or D)
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There are two categories
- Behaviour Change
- Climate Change and the Environment
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The winner is the team with the
most correct answers!
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Category 1: Behaviour Change
These questions see how much you know about how you can
change your every day behaviour to reduce your carbon footrint
and help the environment.
There are 5 main areas where you can change your behaviour:
Water
Travel
Food
Energy
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Behaviour Change Example Question:
What is this woman doing?
A) Talking to her light bulb
B) Putting in a compact fluorescent
light bulb that uses less energy
C) Polishing her lamp
D) Dancing
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Answer:
B) Putting in a compact fluorescent
light bulb that uses less energy
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Question 1: Which of these lights uses
the LEAST energy?
A
B
C
D
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Answer:
Did you know?
- Incandescent bulbs waste 90% of the
electricity they use producing heat.
A
CFL bulbs are much more efficient at
producing light and they last for up to 10
years
- You shouldn’t throw CFL light bulbs in the
garbage - recycle them
(eg at major hardware stores)
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Question 2: When you take a wash,
which uses the least energy?
A) a full bath
B) a 5 minute shower
C) a 6 minute shower
D) a 6 minute shower
with a low flow
showerhead
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Answer:
D) a 6 minute shower
with a low flow
showerhead
Did you know?
- Low flow showerheads cost as little
as $15 and can help your family save around
$100 dollars a year on their energy bills
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Question 3: Which is the “greenest”
form of transportation?
A) Smart Car
C) Bus
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B) Bicycle
D) Train
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Answer:
B) Bicycle
Did you know?
Travelling by bus or train is more environmentally friendly than taking a car,
but riding your bike or walking is the greenest way to go.
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Question 4: Why is it good to ride a bike?
A) It’s fun
B) It keeps you fit
C) It does not use any fossil fuels
D) All of the above
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Answer:
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D) All of the above
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Question 5: If you absolutely have to take
the car to hockey practice, how could you
save fuel?
A) Don’t eat before you go
B) Only go on back roads
C) Carpool with a friend
D) Play your music loudly
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Answer: C) Car Pool with a friend
Did you know?
- Some cities have HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes
to encourage people to carpool
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Question 6: What is this girl doing?
A) Playing with a new toy
B) Adjusting the heat
C) Phoning a friend
D) Setting an alarm
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Answer:
B) Adjusting the heat
with the thermostat
Did you know?
- Turning the heat down by 1ºC saves 2%
on your energy bill
- A reasonable heating temperature is 19ºC
during the day, and 15 ºC at night
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Question 7: What is the name for electricity
that is drained from electronics when they
are plugged in but not in use?
A) Secret Electricity
B) Red Electricity
C) Phantom Electricity
D) Old Electricity
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Answer:
C) Phantom Electricity
Did you know?
- As much as 10% of your energy bill
could be due to phantom power
- Phantom electricity is also
sometimes called vampire electricity
Buy Energy Star rated appliances –
they use 50% less energy!
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Question 8: What is your carbon
footprint?
A) The marks left behind when your dog walks
though last nights camp fire
B) The total amount of greenhouse gases
(including carbon dioxide) that you produce
through all of your activities
C) The print of a Carbosaurus
D) The amount of carbon dioxide given off when you walk
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Answer:
B) The total amount of greenhouse
gases (including carbon dioxide)
that you produce through all of
your activities
Did you know?
- A carbon footprint may also be
referred to as a greenhouse gas
footprint
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Question 9: What is not an environmental
impact of producing meat?
A) It takes more energy to make a kg of meat than a kg of
vegetables
B) Some animals belch methane (a greenhouse gas)
C) The manure (poo) from the animals in factory farms
runs into rivers causing pollution
D) When animals in factory
farms communicate all at
once it can be heard from
space
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Answer:
D) When animals in factory farms
communicate all at once it can be
heard from space
Did you know?
- Some clever farmers use the manure to make biogas to power their farms
Did you know?
- Sheep and cows are ruminants. They
have bacteria in their guts to help them
digest grass, but they produce methane,
which the sheep and cows belch out!
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Question 10: Why is eating locally grown food better
for the environment?
A) There is less fuel used to transport the food
B) Less of the food rots during transportation
C) It sustains local farmers, who you can be friends with!
D) All of the above
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Answer:
D) All of the above
Try to buy seasonal food too because
food grown in heated greenhouses in the
winter might be powered by fossil fuels
Did you know?
-You can grow your own food which
is the most local and
environmentally friendly of all
- Most of our food travels 2,500km
to get to our plates
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Question 11: What is the largest category
of household garbage/recycling?
A) Paper & cardboard
B) Plastic
C) Glass
D) Metals
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Answer: A) Paper & cardboard
Did you know?
- Recycling paper and cardboard in North America saves 41 million trees a year
- We should try to buy products made from recycled paper
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Question 12: Why is it important to
check your car’s tire pressure?
A) At the right pressure, the car
will use less fuel because
less of the tire is touching the
ground
B) If the pressure is too low, the
wheels will stop going round
C) If the pressure is too high, the
car will float like a balloon
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ANSWER:
A) At the right pressure,
the car will use less
fuel because there will
be less resistance
Did you know?
- Properly inflated tires last longer
as there is less wear on them
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Category 2:
Climate Change and the Environment
These questions will test your
understanding of the science of
Climate Change and your
knowledge about the causes and
effects on the environment.
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Question 13: What is this thin blue line?
A) The Ocean
B) The Earth’s Atmosphere
C) The Northern Lights
D) Pollution made by airplanes
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Answer:
B) The Earth’s Atmosphere
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Question 14: Which gas is not a
greenhouse gas?
Oxygen
O2
A
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Answer:
Oxygen
O2
C
Did you know?
- Oxygen makes up 20% of the atmosphere
- Greenhouse gases make up less than 1% of the atmosphere
but they are very important (in the right quantities!)
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Question 15: Which of the following
is not a source of methane?
A) Landfills
B) Cattle
C) Clouds
D) Wetlands
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Answer:
C) Clouds
Clouds do not produce methane
Did you know?
- Garbage in landfills breaks down very slowly because it is buried underground and
there is no oxygen to speed up the decomposition process. Methane is produced
from this process.
- Cattle produce methane when digesting their food.
- It is estimated that more than 50 percent of global methane emissions are related
to human-related activities
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Question 16: Which of these
natural events affects the climate?
A) Thawing permafrost
B) The path of the Earth
around the Sun
C) Volcanic eruptions
D) All of the above
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Answer:
D) All of the above
Thawing permafrost
Volcanic eruptions
The path of the Earth around the Sun
Did you know?
- When permafrost melts it exposes peat bogs and releases captured carbon
dioxide and methane
- Changes in the Earth’s orbit around the sun can affect the climate and are linked
to the timing of ice ages.
- Volcanic eruptions spew ash, rock, and sulphur particles into the atmosphere,
which increase cloud cover and cause global cooling.
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Question 17: Which of the following is
not a source of renewable energy?
A) Wind power
C) Fossil fuels
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B) Hydro power
D) Geothermal power
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Answer:
C) Fossil fuels
Did you know?
- Wind power comes from the wind.
- Hydro power comes from tides, waterfalls, and rivers.
- Geothermal energy comes from heat deep in the earth.
- These three sources are naturally replenished, but when we run out of
fossil fuels, there won’t be any more.
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Question 18: Which is not a fossil fuel?
A) Wood
B) Coal
C) Natural Gas
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D) Oil
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Answer:
A) Wood
Did you know?
- Wood has not been fossilized.
It hasn’t been dead long enough.
If it was buried under pressure,
over a long time it would make coal!
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Question 19: Which of these things in BC
is not being effected by Global Warming?
A) Mountain glaciers
B) Outbreaks of
Pine Beetle
D) The
height of
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Answer:
D) The height of Mount Waddington
Rogers Pass Glacier 1902 and 2002
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Question 20: Some scientists use GCMs to
study climate change. What is a GCM?
A) The latest Pokémon character
B) A computer program
C) A special high-tech thermometer
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Answer:
B) A computer program
GCM stands for:
General
Circulation
Model
Did you know?
- GCMs are computer programs that let scientists recreate the Earth’s
climate on their computer screen. Scientists use the programs to figure
out what the climate might look like in the future.
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Question 21: What is the greenhouse effect?
A) The warming effect a greenhouse has on the plants in it
B) The warming of the surface of the earth and the lower
atmosphere by greenhouse gases, which trap heat
C) A hole in the ozone layer that lets in harmful rays from the
sun
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Answer:
B) The warming of the surface of the earth and
the lower atmosphere by greenhouse
gases, which trap heat
Did you know?
-Without the
greenhouse effect the
Earth’s average
temperature would be
-18ºC (instead of 15ºC)
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Question 22: What is a drought?
A) Less rainfall
B) A heat wave
C) A type of storm
D) A type of energy
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Answer:
A) Less rainfall
Did you know?
Drought are one effect of climate change.
They occur when a region gets less rainfall than normal over a long period of time.
Lakes can dry up, and crops may not grow. Climate change and deforestation along
with droughts are turning some regions of the earth into deserts.
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Question 23: What is your ecological
footprint?
A) A mark in the soil left when we go
for a walk
B) A toy that you buy from an eco-store
C) A measure of our impact on the
natural world caused when we
consume resources and create
waste
D) The size of your eco-shoes.
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Answer:
C) A measure of our impact on the natural world caused
when we consume resources and create waste
Ecological footprints around the world
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7 gha
4.9 gha
2.2 gha
0.9 gha
Canada
UK
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Bonus Question
If everyone on earth lived like
the average North American
how many planets would we need?
A) 2
B) 3
C) 5
D) 7
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If everyone on Earth lived like the average North American we would need
C) 5 planets
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The
End
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