Sustainability Review

What does sustainability mean?

• Making sure the planet and its resources can continue to provide life

• using only fossil fuels

• using only non-renewable resources

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What is NOT a sustainable practice?

• recycling

• reusing

• reducing

• buying

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

If we don't look after resources, we will have...

• No problems

• More problems

• Less problems

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which of these problems could happen if we don't look after the resources we have?

• Loss of animal homes

• Climate change

• Increase in pollution

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

A resource that can replenish itself is...

• Renewable

• Non-renewable

Your Ecological or Carbon Footprint is the ratio of 

• the amount of resources you use to the amount of resources available
• how many people there are on earth to how much space we have on earth
• people to cars
• robots available to robots needed

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which is NOT a way to decrease your ecological footprint?

• Eating less meat and processed foods
• Walking or biking to school
• Turning off electricity and water when you're not using it. 
• Driving a large car around for fun.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

What is NOT a sustainable practice?

• recycling
• reducing
• reusing
• buying 

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

An accurate definition of Sustainability is

• meeting population needs

• meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to survive

• meeting the needs of the future without worrying about todays

• meeting the food needs of animals

The three areas of sustainability are

• Physical, Economical, Political

• Environmental, Social, Physical

• Economical, Environmental, Social

• Physical, Political, Social

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-5