What Is Our Carbon Footprint?
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What Is Our Carbon Footprint? Increase or Decrease Vocabulary Carbon Footprint Calculator What creates the bigger Carbon Footprint? What Can I Do? 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500
What Is Our Carbon Footprint? for 100 True or False Our carbon footprint is the amount of CO 2 we make in our day-to-day lives through the burning of gas, coal, and oil for electricity, heating, and transportation. True
What Is Our Carbon Footprint? for 200 Which photo shows what this glacier currently looks like? a. b. B
What Is Our Carbon Footprint? for 300 True or False CO 2 is the only greenhouse gas. False
What Is Our Carbon Footprint? for 400 Greenhouse Gases include what kinds of gases? a. Chevron and Mobile b. Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide, Methane c. Oxygen and Argon d. All of the above B
What Is Our Carbon Footprint? for 500 True or False The carbon budget is the limited amount of carbon that can be emitted into the atmosphere before we increase the global temperature resulting in global warming. True True
Increase or Decrease for 100 Does this increase or decrease your carbon footprint? Walking to School Decrease
Increase or Decrease for 200 Does this increase or decrease your carbon footprint? Leaving all the lights on when you leave the room. Increase
Increase or Decrease for 300 Does this increase or decrease your carbon footprint? Using power strips and turning them off when not in use. Decrease
Increase or Decrease for 400 Does this increase or decrease your carbon footprint? Going meatless once a week. Decrease
Increase or Decrease for 500 Does this increase or decrease your carbon footprint? Saving leftover food for another meal. Decrease
Vocabulary for 100 CO 2 and other gases that collect in the atmosphere act like a thick blanket, trapping the sun s heat and causing the planet to warm up. The more CO 2 we put into the atmosphere, the higher the earth s temperature climbs. Scientists call this what: a. Climate b. Global Warming c. Carbon Footprint B
Vocabulary for 200 Gases that trap heat and act like a giant blanket keeping our planet warm are called: a. Noble Gases b. Brownhouse Gases c. Greenhouse Gases C
Vocabulary for 300 Day to day temperature, humidity, and wind. a. Weather b. Climate c. Forecast A
Vocabulary for 400 The average weather conditions in a certain place over many years. a. Weather b. Climate c. Forecast B
Vocabulary for 500 When looking at the life cycle of cheese, we see that it has a carbon footprint. However, it is not us eating the cheese that is emitting CO 2 but the process of creating cheese. What is this process called? a. Cheesiness b. Cows c. Farming d. Cradle to Grave D
Carbon Footprint Calculator for 100 If you leave the Smartboard on for two hours during class, how many grams of CO 2 does it emit? (A Smartboard emits 300 g per hour.) 600 g of CO 2 so y=300g + 300g=2 x 300g
Carbon Footprint Calculator for 200 This morning you watched an hour and half of TV while eating breakfast. How many grams of CO 2 did your TV emit? (A TV emits 300 g per hour.) 450 g of CO 2
Carbon Footprint Calculator for 300 For one hour, you left the Smartboard on, the refrigerator on, and the TV on. How many grams of CO 2 was emitted? Smartboard = 300 g/hour Mini-refrigerator = 30 g/hour TV = 300 g/hour 630 g CO 2 (to solve y=300 + 30 + 300)
Carbon Footprint Calculator for 400 Your classroom has ten lights and they were all left on for two hours. How many grams of CO 2 did they emit? (One light emits 40 g per hour.) 800 g of CO 2 y = (40 g x 2 hrs) x 10 lights
Carbon Footprint Calculator for 500 A.If next week, you carpooled to and from school with a friend everyday (5 days), how many less grams of CO 2 were emitted (One car emits 1,810 g per day-round the final answer to nearest thousand)? 9,000 g of CO 2
What creates the bigger Carbon Footprint? For 100 Riding your bike to school or driving to school? Driving to school
What creates the bigger Carbon Footprint? For 200 Using a reusable water bottle or single use water bottles Single use water bottles
What creates the bigger Carbon Footprint? for 300 Drying your clothes in the dryer or hanging them out to dry on a clothes line? In the dryer
What creates the bigger Carbon Footprint? for 400 Taking a bath or a 5 minute shower? Bath
What creates the bigger Carbon Footprint? For 500 Eating a cheeseburger or a bowl of pasta with marinara sauce? Cheeseburger-meat has bigger carbon footprint than vegetarian dishes like pasta
What can we do? for 100 Driving to and from school each day emits almost 4lbs of CO 2 into the air, that s 720lbs in one school year. Name one way you can reduce this carbon footprint. Carpool, Walk to School, Ride/Bike to School
Saving leftover food for another meal or composting leftover food scraps that can t be eaten. What can we do? for 200 About 25% of all our food ends up in the landfill and accounts for a large portion of U.S. methane emissions (a greenhouse gas). Name one way you can reduce this footprint.
What can we do? for 300 Vegetarians save 3,000 pounds of CO 2 per year compared to a meat eater. And 51% of global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by animal agriculture. Name one way to reduce this carbon footprint. Eat less meat and eat more poultry than beef because beef production emits more greenhouse gases.
What can we do? For 400 38 million plastic water bottles end up in the landfill every year and one plastic water bottle can take 400 years to degrade. Name one way to reduce this footprint. Use reusable water bottles and filter your own water. If you have to use a plastic water bottle, make sure it is recycled!
What can we do? for 500 Food travels an average of 1,500 miles on average between farm and the supermarket. Name one way we can reduce this carbon footprint. Shop for locally grown fruits and veggies and grow your own food in a garden.