Recycling Pre-Quiz

Where does your garbage go after the truck collects it at your house?

• It goes to the coast, where it’s dumped into the ocean.

• It goes to the local landfill, where it is buried.

• It goes to Austin, where it is made into new products.

• It goes on a train to another state.

Which of the following items DOES belong in the blue recycling cart?

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

If you use a plastic bag for groceries one day and then make a kite out of it the next, the bag has been ___________.

• Reduced

• Reused

• Recycled

• Reversed

If you choose to take reusable bags to the grocery store instead of getting the plastic bags provided, you have _______ the waste you generate.

• Reduced

• Reused

• Recycled

• Reversed

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

NGSS.MS-PS1-3

If you take your plastic grocery bags back to the store and place them in the designated bin, they will be ______ into plastic lumber.

• Reduced

• Reused

• Recycled

• Reversed

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

It’s better for the environment to use a durable, washable, refillable water bottle THAN it is to buy a case of plastic water bottles, drink the water, and recycle the empty plastic bottles.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

My recycling actions do not impact the economy or products made from recycled materials.

• True

• False

Recycling is the only way that we can decrease the amount of waste we make.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

Plastic is made from a limited natural resource that is drilled from the Earth’s crust.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

If thrown in the trash instead of the recycling bin, how long does it take for a single plastic bottle to decompose?

• 1 month

• 2 years

• 500 years

• 80 years

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-3