Sample Quiz Questions for Week #1AB

Environmental Studies 126

Integrated Liberal Studies 126

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1. What is your TA's first and last name?

(Your TA will be the judge as to whether the spelling is close enough.)

a. Name one fun fact about your TA from his or her website.

Follow link on this page: http://faculty.nelson.wisc.edu/middlecamp/2014/instructors.php

b. Name one fun fact about yourself.

2. Here are 2 photos from lecture 1A:

a. Name the “power of sight” that Professor Bill Cronin hoped people in his course would use to see the world differently. Also give an example of what you might learn about our campus by using this power of sight.

b. This pie chart, without its labels, shows campus energy use. What is the biggest section of the pie chart (72%), shown here in red?

3. The author of How Bad Are Bananas hopes that you will gain a “carbon instinct.” Part of this instinct is your knowing the relative sizes of carbon footprints. Be able to answer this question (answer on page 11).

Which of these is the approximate yearly carbon footprint of an average North American? The units are CO2e.

Less than 1 ton 25-30 tons~100 tons More than 300 tons

4. For kW-h, know what the k, the W and the h stand for and what they measure.

5. Below is the graph that we examined in lectures 1A and 1B.

a. Given this graph without the labels on the x- and y-axis, be able to provide them with their units. Also, know that MMBTUs are million British Thermal Units (a unit of energy, just like kW-h) and what GSF is (gross square feet, all of the space within a building, not just the rooms).

b. Given the start and end values for either of the two lines, be able to set up the calculation that shows the percent increase or decrease. No need to do the math; just set up the calculation. Remember to include the “× 100” after the fraction to convert it to a %!

c. Between 2006 and 2013, be able to give one specific example of what caused the decrease (an energy conservation measure implemented in this time period) and the increase (a building built in this time period, one that was a new construction thus not replacing an earlier building).