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April 2008
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On April 22, people across the world celebrate Earth Day, which promotes environmental protection, awareness, and education.
Schools may observe Earth Day with activities such as zero-waste lunches, water testing, and recycling projects.
Environmentalists have many goals. One is to use more renewable energy sources, which would reduce the burning of fossil fuels.
Name two types of renewable energy, and two forms of fossil fuels.
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Subject Heading(s):
Energy conservation (by date); Renewable energy sources (by date)
Keywords:
"renewable energy" (date); "fossil fuels" (date)
Topic Browse Path:
ENVIRONMENT: Energy: alternative sources
Article(s) | Site(s):
"Fuels of the Future," Weekly Reader-4, April 20, 2007
Answer:
Wind, water, and solar power are forms of renewable energy. Coal, natural gas, and oil are types of fossil fuels.
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The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress promotes poetry via writings, lectures, special projects, poetry readings, and other ventures.
In 2007, Charles Simic was appointed Poet Laureate. This award-winning poet is also an essayist, translator, editor, and a professor at the University of New Hampshire.
Simic won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for what collection of poems?
A. "My Noiseless Entourage"
B. "Selected Poems: 1963-2003"
C. "The World Doesn't End"
D. "Walking the Black Cat"
Article(s) | Site(s):
"Librarian of Congress Appoints Charles Simic Poet Laureate,"
US Fed News Service, Aug. 2, 2007
Answer:
C. "The World Doesn't End"
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