Environmental Trivial Pursuit

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Environmental Trivial Pursuit
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• Answers are in bold.
• Our "ecological footprint" is a metaphor used to
  depict the amount of land and water area a human
  population would hypothetically need to provide
  the resources required to support itself and to
  absorb its wastes, given prevailing technology.
• What is the ecological footprint of the average
  person living in India?
• 0.1 acres
• 1 acre
• 3.5 acres
• 12.2 acres
• 25 acres
• What is the ecological footprint of the average
  person living in North America?
• 0.1 acres
• 1 acre
• 3.5 acres
• 12.2 acres
• 25 acres

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• If all humans were to live as North Americans do,
  how many planet Earths would it take to sustain
  them?
• 0.5
• 1
• 3
• 5

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• A renewable resource is any natural resource that
  is depleted at a rate slower than the rate at
  which it regenerates. A resource must have a way
  of regenerating itself in order to qualify as
  renewable. Timber, water, vegetation are examles.
• A non-renewable resource is a natural resource
  that cannot be re-made or re-grown. Often fossil
  fuels, such as coal, petroleum and natural gas
  are considered non-renewable resources, as they
  do not naturally re-form at a rate that makes the
  way we use them sustainable.
• What poses the greatest challenge to humanity?
• Depletion of non-renewable resources
• Depletion of renewable resources

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• An aquifer is an underground layer of
  water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated
  materials (gravel, sand, silt, or clay) from
  which groundwater can be usefully extracted using
  a water well.
• What is the largest aquifer in the US?
• Edwards Aquifer
• Floridan Aquifer
• Mahomet Aquifer
• Ogallala Aquifer

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• The Ogallala Aquifer, also known as the High
  Plains Aquifer, is a vast yet shallow underground
  water table aquifer located beneath the Great
  Plains in the United States. One of the world's
  largest aquifers, it lies under about 174,000 mi²
  (450,000 km²) in portions of the eight states of
  South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado,
  Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. The
  aquifer was first tapped for irrigation in 1911.
  Large scale use for irrigation began in the 1930s
  and continued through the 1950s, due to the
  availability of electric power to rural farming
  communities and the development of cheap and
  efficient electric turbine pumps. It was only
  after World War II that affordable technology
  became available to substantially extract water.
  This transformed the High Plains into one of the
  most agriculturally productive regions in the
  world.

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• At the current rates of water extraction, the
  Ogallala aquifer is estimated to be
• Sustainable
• Unsustainable, will dry out in 500 years
• Unsustainable, will dry out in 200-300 years
• Unsustainable, will dry out in 40-50 years

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• How many liters of additional water are used in
  bottling plants to make 1 liter of Coca Cola?
• 0.2 liters
• 0.8 liters
• 1.6 liters
• 2 liters
• 5 liters
• How many liters of water are used in the Coca
  Cola supply chain to make 1 liter of Coca Cola?
• 5 liters
• 10 liters
• 50 liters
• 100 liters
• More than 150 liters

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• How many pounds of resources does the average
  American consumer per week?
• 55
• 72
• 100
• 136
• 199
• How many pounds of waste are created in the
  processes that support this consumption?
• 100
• 500
• 1000
• 2000
• 5000