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Novice (Green)

Canadian Environment Week

Canadian Environment Week is held the first week in June to coincide with:

Recycle

Which of these can you recycle?

Plants

Why are plants important?

4 R's

What do the 4 R's stand for?

Sources of pollution

Which of the following are sources of pollution?

Reduce consumption

What can you do at home to reduce your energy consumption?

Idling

When should you turn off your car engine instead of idling?

Oceans

What percent of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans?

Help the environment

Which of these activities do many Canadians do to help the environment?

Climate

The weather is the same thing as the climate

Advanced (Greenest)

Save fuel

Routinely replacing your vehicle's oil and filters can save how much fuel?

Computer equipment

How many tonnes of waste do we create through disposed computer equipment, phones, audio-visual equipment and small household appliances each year in Canada?

Yearly cost

How much does it cost per year to leave a computer on 24 hours a day?

Energy efficient refrigerators

Today's energy efficient refrigerators use ____ percent less energy than models made 10 years ago.

Aluminum cans

How many years does it take for an aluminum can to decompose?

Global agreement

Which global conference was the first step towards a global agreement on greenhouse gases emissions reduction?

Pest insect

This pest insect was intentionally imported into the United States to start a silk enterprise. Its larvae eat oak trees voraciously and can be easily identified by the blue spots on their first few segments and the red spots on the remaining segments?

Threat to species

What is the biggest threat to species?

Air pollution

A Health Canada study of eight major Canadian cities in 2005 estimated that air pollution contributed to ______ deaths a year?

Wildlife species

A wildlife species that no longer exists in the wild in Canada, but does exist outside Canada is known as: