Wco-Quiz

1. If you saved up all the unwanted junk mail for one year, the United States would save 100,000,000 trees in a year.
2. If just 25% of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2,500,000,000 bags a year.
3. Leaves alone account for 75% our solid wastes in the fall season.
4. Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
5. Energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a TV set for 3 hours. You can't plug a TV set into a can! hours.
6. Americans consume more than 850 trees a year through commercial paper.
7. Insulating your attic reduces the amount of energy loss in most houses by up to 20%. Insulation causes an energy loss, not gain. percent.
8. Every day 40,000 children die from preventable diseases somewhere in the world.
9. The human population of the world is expected to have nearly tripled by the year 2100.
10. The uncontrolled fishing that is allowed has reduced the amount of some commercial species up to One-tenth of their original population.
11. Every day 50-100 species of plants and animals becomes extinct as their habitat and human influences destroy them.
12. In Peninsular Malaysia, more tree species are found in 125 acres of Tropical Forest than in the entire North America.
13. A study has shown that there are possibly over 300,000,000 species of insects dwelling in the canopies of tropical forests.
14. 63,000 square miles of rainforests are being destroyed each year.
15. Medicine produced in tropical forests brings in commercially 300 billion dollars a year.
16. one-fourth of the world's rainforests are found in Brazil.
17. Grasslands one-fifth of the land on Earth.
18. Every year approximately 400,000,000,000 tons of carbon accumulates in the air.
19. Batteries contain Heavy metals, which cause contamination in dump sites and in the air when incinerated. This is why you should recharge your batteries.
20. Life in the oceans provides the earth with most of our oxygen, duh!, a most precious chemical.
21. Instead of using an incandescent light bulb, use a fluorescent light bulb, which uses one-fourth of the energy and lasts longer. Yet, it still gives off the same amount of light.
22. Releasing helium balloons into the air, may result in animals such as a whale or sea turtle swallowing it and dying.
23. Toxic chemicals which you dump down the storm drain may end up in the ocean.
24. The second leading cause of death among 14-17 year olds is murder.
25. If you are in a room with three monkeys, and one holds a banana, one has a book, and the other has a pencil, who is the smartest primate in the room? Ans: none of the above