Stuff - Take the Quiz!
Do you know your stuff?
Match the left column with the right; answers are below.
| 1. Car | A. It can take 700 gallons of water to make. |
| 2. Bicycle | B. The world's second largest legal export commodity (after oil). |
| 3. Cheeseburger | C. The leading killer of Americans ages 2 to 24. |
| 4. Newsprint | D. The U.S. consumes 40 percent of the world supply. |
| 5. This book | E. 120 pounds. |
| 6. Coffee | F. The most efficient transport vehicle ever invented. |
| 7. Aluminum | G. So energy intensive it is called "congealed electricity." |
| 8. Computer chip | H. Making it generates 4,500 times its weight in waste. |
| 9. Cotton | I. 93 percent postconsumer waste. |
| 10. What the average American consumes daily | J. 10 percent of world pesticides used on it. |
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