Sustainability
Water Cycle
Renewables
Non-Renewables
100
A real life example of this is the contamination of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern US shorelines from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
What is tragedy of the commons?
100
This river provides Arizona with water more than any other river.
What is the Colorado river?
100
This is the most common renewable used in Arizona
What is solar energy?
100
The Chernobyl disaster led to the release of massive radiation from a melt down at this type of power plant.
What is nuclear power?
200
Decreasing the amount of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas, would lead to a decrease of this gas released into the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
200
This makes up 2.5% of the water on Earth.
What is freshwater?
200
When this energy source is built offshore it produces 3 times as much electricity as when it is built on land.
What is a wind turbine?
200
This country has the largest coal reserves in the world.
What is the United States
300
The three "r"s of sustainable societies. (a slogan)
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
300
The part of the hydrologic cycle in which water vapor is released from leaves into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
300
This renewable energy source is used most often for cooking and heating in less developed countries because it can be easily obtained locally.
What is biomass?
300
This step in the generation of electricity using fossil fuels is the most likely to lead to an environmental problem.
What is burning fossil fuels to boil water?
400
This is the most effective way to slow birth rates.
What is educating women?
400
As a result of destroying natural habitats and putting in impermeable pavement, this part of the water cycle increases.
What is runoff?
400
This type of solar power production is the most common type in Arizona
What are photovoltaic solar cells?
400
This type of reaction creates a massive amount of electricity and does not release any carbon dioxide.
What is fission?
500
This occurs when a populations demand on an ecosystem exceeds the biocapacity of that ecosystem to regenerate the resources that are consumed and to absorb wastes.
What is Ecological Overshoot?
500
Hoover dam is the largest dam in the United States, it provides hydroelectric power and recreation opportunities in Lake Mead reservoir upstream of the dam. Downstream of the dam, this is a major environmental consequence resulting from the change in river flow.
What is water not reaching the delta in the Gulf of California?
or
What is the lower river basin experiencing an increase in sediment?
500
This is required to convert geothermal energy into electricty.
What is groundwater?
500
This method has lead to an increase in the production of oil and natural gas, lowering energy prices, but fluids from the process could escape from the drill hole and contaminate ground water.
What is fracking?