Recycling, Fossil Fuels, Warming Test
  • 1. Paper with writing on it is recyclable.
A) False
B) True
  • 2. Which of the following numbers of plastics is NOT recyclable in your green bin?
A) 5
B) 6
C) 1
D) 2
  • 3. Paper that has staples cannot be recycled.
A) False
B) True
  • 4. Used paper plates cannot be recycled
A) True
B) False
  • 5. Which of the following is recyclable in your green bin?
A) Aluminum Foil
B) Scrap Metal
C) Glass
D) Aluminum Cans
  • 6. You can recycle tissue paper in your green bin.
A) False
B) True
  • 7. Which of the following is the most biodegradable?
A) Paper Clips
B) Chip Bags
C) Styrofoam
D) Lettuce
  • 8. First Star Fiber sells much of its recycled material to...
A) China
B) Guatemaula
C) Mexico
D) Sri Lanka
  • 9. Plastic bags are recyclable in the green bin.
A) True
B) False
  • 10. Styrofoam biodegrades easily in landfills
A) False
B) True
  • 11. What can you add to compost piles to help them biodegrade things quicker?
A) Foil
B) Red Meat
C) Leaves
D) Worms
  • 12. Which of these is not a fossil fuel?
A) Solar
B) Natural Gas
C) Coal
D) Oil

  • 13. What is powering the cars in this video?
A) The Sun
B) Gravity
C) The Wind
D) A Battery
  • 14. How much do the cubes of recycled material at FirstStar Fiber weigh?
A) 100 pounds
B) 36 pounds
C) 2000 pounds
D) 5000 pounds
  • 15. Name a type of raw material
  • 16. Which of the following is a finished good?
A) Quartz
B) Bauxite
C) Gold
D) Blender
E) Granite
  • 17. In your own words, explain what biodegradable means and give two examples of things that biodegrade easily.
  • 18. You can get a green bin for free in Omaha.
A) True
B) False
  • 19. Explain how fossil fuels are formed (use complete sentences with capital letters and periods).
  • 20. How can recycling save us money?
  • 21. Describe what a landfill is used for and how it is put together.
  • 22. Which fossil fuel is most often burned to generate electricity?
A) nuclear power
B) oil
C) coal
D) natural gas
  • 23. Plastics are made from this fossil fuel.
A) coal
B) natural gas
C) zinc
D) trees
E) oil
  • 24. We use this fossil fuel to heat our homes and there is a lot of it in the U.S.
A) gasoline
B) coal
C) calcite
D) oil
E) natural gas
  • 25. Gasoline is made from oil
A) True
B) False
  • 26. Resources that cannot be reused or remade in our lifetime are called
A) Renewable resources
B) Non-renewable resources
C) Hydrocarbons
D) Biflow resources
  • 27. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the air. The build up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere makes the earth...
A) darker
B) dryer
C) wetter
D) hotter
E) colder
  • 28. Describe why we use more coal now than we did 30 years ago.
  • 29. Which color would probably hold the most heat?
A) White
B) Pink
C) Dark blue
D) Light yellow
  • 30. Mrs. Kremla has a foil covered blanket she puts in the window of her car so it won't get hot in the summer. Why doesn't she just put a black blanket over her window?
  • 31. Describe how you can reduce the amount of trash that enters a landfill.
  • 32. When trash goes to a landfill it is...
A) dumped into a lake
B) buried in pits
C) animals eat all the trash
D) burned
  • 33. Which of the following is not caused by global warming?
A) animals losing their habitats
B) More hours of daylight
C) droughts
D) severe weather
E) sea ice melting
  • 34. What is the main cause of current global warming?
A) human activity
B) volcanoes erupting
C) the core of the earth is rotating faster
D) the earth is closer to the sun
  • 35. Explain how sea ice melting can make the world get hotter. Tell what bad things can happen if too much sea ice melts.
  • 36. Based on the results in the picture, write a conclusion for our experiment about which room had the most recycling. Pretend that your hypothesis was 6th grade.
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