The Environment
Hydropower and geothermal energy allow this island country to generate nearly 100% of its energy from renewable sources.
What is Iceland?
This transboundary river regularly carries sewage and other contamination into the South Bay.
What is the Tijuana River?
Dr. No and Goldfinger are installments in this long-running action franchise.
What is James Bond?
Among beef, pork, grains, and fruit, this food generally has the largest water footprint per pound.
What is Beef?
New Epsilon Eta members receive this plant-inspired name.
What is a sprout?
San Diego’s dry summers and cooler, wetter winters characterize this climate type.
What is a Mediterranean climate?
This dense, woody shrubland is common on San Diego hillsides and adapted to periodic wildfire.
What is chaparral?
206 of these are found in an adult human body
What are bones
A front lawn being irrigated at 17 gallons per minute uses this many gallons in one hour. (no phones or calculators!!)
What is 1020 gallons?
The minimum number of rush events sprouts are required to attend for membership.
What is 3!
This global environment stores vastly more carbon than forests, lakes, or the atmosphere.
What are the oceans?
Celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal, San Diego's Balboa Park hosted the World's Fair in this decade.
What are the 1910s
This song is the only song to reach the top 10 on a Billboard chart in three separate decades. Also an anagram of "Hah, boys mind opera”.
What is Bohemian Rhapsody?
Plants release water vapor into the atmosphere through this process.
What is transpiration?
Tomorrow's Event
The h2o that make a warm cloud visible exists in this state of matter.
What is Liquid
The University of California San Diego's Theodore Geisel Library is named for a writer who might be better recognized by this pen name”.
Who is Dr. Suess
Obama defeated these republican presidential nominees in 2008 and 2012, respectively.
Who are John McCain and Mitt Romney?
This underground formation of permeable rock or sediment stores and transmits groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
The location of Epsilon Eta's founding chapter.
What is UNC Chapel Hill
These chlorine-containing chemicals were the principal historical cause of stratospheric ozone depletion.
What are chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs?
This dog, beloved by fictional newscaster Ron Burgundy, was tragically punted from the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.
Who is Baxter.
Translated to “Out of many, one" what Latin phrase appears on the “tails” side of many US coins?
What is E Pluribus Unum
Excess nutrients in water can trigger algal blooms and oxygen depletion—a process called this
What is eutrophication?
Do you love the Environment?
Yes.