Focus Earth Quiz

37 cups of water on average are used to produce just one cup of Joe—starting from when coffee beans are grown to when it reaches your mug in the morning.

Source: American Museum of Natural History

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Kenya is one of the world's top exporters of black tea, but because of drought and weather they've dropped production by nearly 6 percent, sending tea prices to rise around the globe.

Source: Bloomberg News, Reuters

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About 7 percent of energy in the U.S. comes from renewable like solar, wind and geothermal. In fact solar and wind combined make up less than one percent of energy in the country.

Source: Energy Information Administration

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In the past 150 years the level of carbon dioxide has risen by 38 percent in the world's atmosphere, becoming a leading cause for climate change. And scientists say the numbers are rising.

Source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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Experiencing a magnitude 7 earthquake almost every year, Alaska also suffered the country's largest recorded earthquake in 1964...a magnitude 9.2.

Source: U.S. Geological Survey

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The average chimp lives up to 45 years, but the species is becoming more endangered because of poaching and loss of habitat.

Source: National Geographic

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Out of the roughly 1500 diseases that affect people, such as malaria and salmonella, 60 percent originate with animals.

Source: Wildlife Conservation Society, Center for Disease Control

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With a proper engine, almost any vegetable oil—such as olive or canola oil—can be poured right into a diesel car.

Source: ABC News

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Walruses—which weigh an average of a ton each—use their giant tusks to drag themselves out of the ocean and onto the Arctic ice.

Source: National Geographic

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Self-taught American inventor Thomas Edison patented many technologies which helped pave the road to the modern electric world.

Source: ABC News

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The Chinese alligator lives in the Yangtze River valley. But years of converting those wetlands into farmland caused their numbers to plummet and they are now considered extremely endangered.

Source: Wildlife Conservation Society

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