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CSET Renewable Sources Of Energy And Recycling
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The identification code used for different types of plastic resin
The Resin Identification Code
30% of glass beer and soft drink bottles
95% reduction in air pollution
Hydropower
2. Percent of aluminum that is recycled in California
Sustainability
Bauxite Ore
56% of paper consumed in the US
85% of aluminum
3. Percent of virgin aluminum that is still in use
1 -500 C
70% of virgin aluminum ever made
The Grand Coulee Dam
Prompt industrial scrap
4. Percent of California's energy that comes from hydroelectric plants
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5. The number of times paper can be reused.
Five to seven times
Resins coded with numbers
Polyethylene
The Grand Coulee Dam
6. The process by which ethane and propane are converted to ethylene and propylene
Biomass - hydropower - geothermal energy - wind - solar energy
94.4% of aluminum
Cracking
Annealed
7. Air movement that can be harnessed to give mechanical energy or electricity.
Three Gorges Dam
Wind
95% reduction in air pollution
30% of glass beer and soft drink bottles
8. Percent of California's energy that comes from renewable resources (excluding hydroelectric plants
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9. Amount of energy required to make a ton of recycled aluminum.
80% of raw glass material
5% of the energy required to make a ton of virgin aluminum
The Resin Identification Code
20% of Code 1 Plastics
10. The use of the kinetic energy in moving water such as rivers or tidal currents to generate electricity. The most widely used form of renewable energy
Hydropower
Three Gorges - Itaipu - Grand Coulee - Hoover - Aswan Dam
The Grand Coulee Dam
Smelting
11. Another word for virgin
Home scrap
Old scrap
Primary
Five to seven times
12. On border of Brazil and Paraguay - produces enough energy to fulfill all of California's needs.
10% of gasoline in California
11.8% of California's energy
Itaipu Dam
Three Gorges - Itaipu - Grand Coulee - Hoover - Aswan Dam
13. Scrap generated by a company that cannot or will not use it. The company sells this scrap on the secondary market
Virgin
Home scrap
Prompt industrial scrap
Two forms of recycling glass beverage and food containers
14. The five most used forms of renewable energy
Primary
Biomass - hydropower - geothermal energy - wind - solar energy
Itaipu Dam
Three Gorges Dam
15. Percent of paper consumed in the US that was recovered for recycling
Prompt industrial scrap
56% of paper consumed in the US
95% reduction in air pollution
Wind
16. Percent composition of glass
60% silica sand - 20% soda ash - 15% limestone
Three Gorges - Itaipu - Grand Coulee - Hoover - Aswan Dam
80% of the recycled glass market
Cracking
17. Amount of energy required to make recycled glass products.
Bayer refining process
Sustainability
60% of the energy required to make new glass
50% of aluminum
18. Was the largest dam at the time it was built; still one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the US.
Hoover Dam
Origin of plastic
Prompt industrial scrap
95% reduction in air pollution
19. Percent of aluminum that is recycled in the US
Thermoset polymers
50% of aluminum
Wind
Biomass
20. Percent of gasoline that must be ethanol in California
5% of plastic produced in the US
Sustainability
10% of gasoline in California
95% reduction in air pollution
21. A kind of polymer that comes in two parts. When the two parts are mixed - they fuse together and harden.
56% of paper consumed in the US
Hydropower
Annealed
Resin
22. Amount of energy required to make recycled paper products.
11.8% of California's energy
60% of the energy required to make new paper
Secondary
16% of California's energy
23. The largest damn in the US and the third largest hydroelectric facility in the world
85% of aluminum
10% of gasoline in California
The Grand Coulee Dam
Geothermal energy
24. Percent of glass beer and soft drink bottles that have been recycled in the US
37% of fiber used to make new paper products in the US
Resin
Secondary
30% of glass beer and soft drink bottles
25. Percent of glass market that is from bottles and jars
56% of paper consumed in the US
10% of gasoline in California
80% of raw glass material
80% of the recycled glass market
26. Radiation from the Sun that can be used directly for heating - or it can be converted to electricity.
Biomass
Solar energy
1 -500 C
Hoover Dam
27. (recycling) The original product - not made out of recycled materials
The Resin Identification Code
Virgin
Five to seven times
Resins coded with numbers
28. Built to control flooding on the Nile; provided about half of Egypt's electricity at the time it was built
70% of virgin aluminum ever made
Geothermal energy
The Aswan Dam
11.8% of California's energy
29. Percent of materials used to make new bottles and jars that can be cullet
11.8% of California's energy
80% of raw glass material
Home scrap
95% reduction in air pollution
30. Percent of fiber used to make new paper products in the US that comes form recycled sources.
The Aswan Dam
Bauxite Ore
37% of fiber used to make new paper products in the US
Thermoset polymers
31. Refers to the removing of oxygen from a metal ore by burning it with a carbon - based fuel or electrolytically.
Old scrap
Home scrap
Smelting
5% of plastic produced in the US
32. The simplest plastic polymer.
Polyethylene
60% of the energy required to make new paper
Bayer refining process
79% of all glass beverage containers
33. Percent of code 1 plastics that are recycled
Prompt industrial scrap
20% of Code 1 Plastics
Itaipu Dam
40% of landfill material
34. Thermoplastics - all can be recycled - but not all are.
37% of fiber used to make new paper products in the US
Resins coded with numbers
Primary
60% silica sand - 20% soda ash - 15% limestone
35. Propane and ethane extracted from crude oil
Hoover Dam
79% of all glass beverage containers
Secondary
Origin of plastic
36. Scrap material generated by a company and reused or recycled by that company
79% of all glass beverage containers
50% of aluminum
Home scrap
94.4% of aluminum
37. In China - still being built - will produce the most hydroelectric power in the world
94.4% of aluminum
Three Gorges Dam
5% of the energy required to make a ton of virgin aluminum
Resins coded with numbers
38. Glass that is crushed and ready to be remelted.
Cracking
Cullet
Three Gorges - Itaipu - Grand Coulee - Hoover - Aswan Dam
11.8% of California's energy
39. Material from discarded consumer products. Source of 1/3 of the aluminum used in the US
Old scrap
Smelting
Sustainability
Three Gorges Dam
40. Accounts for 38% of aluminum consumption
Home scrap
Transportation uses
80% of the recycled glass market
Prompt industrial scrap
41. Percent of landfill material that is waste paper
40% of landfill material
Geothermal energy
Itaipu Dam
Biomass - hydropower - geothermal energy - wind - solar energy
42. Have relatively linear molecular structure. When they are heated above their melting point - they soften and flow like a liquid.
Bayer refining process
Resins coded with numbers
Thermoplastic polymers
Origin of plastic
43. Amount by which recycling paper reduces air pollution
Biomass
Polyethylene
95% reduction in air pollution
Transportation uses
44. Reuse of bottles and crushing of collected glass bottles to be re - melted
Polyethylene
30% of glass beer and soft drink bottles
Two forms of recycling glass beverage and food containers
80% of raw glass material
45. Have a structure with links between the chains - forming a rigid - three - dimensional network. When thermoset polymers are heated - they chemically decompose and cannot be reformed into different shapes.
Biomass
The Grand Coulee Dam
Thermoset polymers
Polyethylene
46. Mineral from which industrial aluminum is obtained.
Bauxite Ore
Resin
Two forms of recycling glass beverage and food containers
The Resin Identification Code
47. Energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth that can be used to heat buildings or generate electricity.
40% of landfill material
Geothermal energy
Home scrap
Wind
48. The process by which aluminum oxide is obtained from bauxite
Cullet
The Aswan Dam
Geothermal energy
Bayer refining process
49. Percent of glass beer and soft drink bottles that have been recycled in California
Biomass
Cracking
Resin
79% of all glass beverage containers
50. Organic material that can be burned to release energy in the form of heat.
30% of glass beer and soft drink bottles
Biomass
Three Gorges Dam
Hoover Dam