Sustainability

Sustainability means ...

• causing pollution.

• maintaining the world we live in.

• chopping down trees.

• manufacturing sellable items.

The word sustainability has many meanings...

• maintain, support, endure, withstand

• maintain, manufacture, endure, remove

• maintain, destroy, endure, withstand

The main idea of sustainability is to act responsibly so that the resources on the planet will be able to _____________many generations to come.

• feed

• wipe out

• support

• clothe

There are a _______________ of resources on Earth which are removed everyday to produce houses, cars and pretty much everything.

• huge number

• limited number

• infinite number

Sustainability means to _______________ these resources forever.

• maintain

• lose

• create

• produce

Our actions have_______________ on the environment and we need to protect it for future generations.

• no impact

• improved

• sustainability

• a deep impact

If you want to figure out if something is sustainable, you need to ask yourself the question..______________________?

• Can I do this until it is extinct?

• Can I do this for a year?

• Can I do this for a few years?

• Can I do this forever?

___________ was produced in the early 1990's and is a mass produced item today.

• Trees

• Plastic

• Thneeds

• cars

We use plastic for ...

• a few things.

• nothing.

• many, many things.

Plastic takes _____________ of years to decompose.

• trillions

• hundreds

• a couple of

• millions