Understanding Consumption and Sustainability

What is the term for using or taking in things like food, clothes, and toys?

• Production

• Consumption

• Disposal

• Recycling

What does consumerism refer to?

• Protecting nature

• Buying a lot of things, sometimes more than needed

• Making things in factories

• Ensuring job stability

What is the process of making things in factories, growing food on farms, or raising animals for meat or materials?

• Disposal

• Recycling

• Production

• Consumption

What does disposal mean?

• Throwing things away

• Creating something new

• Protecting the environment

• Ensuring economic stability

What is recycling?

• Taking care of the Earth

• Throwing things away

• Taking something that has already been used and creating something new from it

• Buying more things

What is sustainability?

• Ensuring strong money

• Taking care of the Earth for future generations

• Buying a lot of things

• Throwing things away

What does social equity mean?

• Treating everyone fairly and ensuring equal opportunities

• Protecting nature

• Making things in factories

• Buying more things

What is resource conservation?

• Being careful with natural resources

• Throwing things away

• Buying more things

• Making things in factories

What is the process of minimizing the amount of trash produced called?

• Waste Management

• Recycling

• Waste Reduction

• Composting

What are sections of land where trash is buried known as?

• Recycling Centers

• Landfills

• Compost Piles

• Waste Bins