Plants
What do plants absorb from the atmosphere to help them grow?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Fun Fact: Plants use carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to create their own sugars.
What are three major industries or sectors responsible for global greenhouse gas emissions?
Energy production (electricity), transportation, and agriculture/food production.
Fun Fact: Burning fossil fuels for electricity, transportation, and industrial production accounts for a huge portion of global emissions. Agriculture also contributes through livestock, fertilizer, and deforestation.
Which Bay Area city is especially known as the birthplace of hyphy?
Oakland
Fun fact: The hyphy movement grew across the Bay Area in the 1990s and 2000s.
What is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight?
A bat!
Fun Fact: Some bats can eat hundreds of insects in a single hour!
Song #1
After Hours - Kehlani
What part of a plant absorbs most of its water from the soil?
Roots
Fun Facts: Some tree roots systems spreader wider than the tree is tall
Approximately how many pounds of food are wasted around the world every year?
Over 1 billion lbs at the retail, food service, and household levels.
Fun Fact: Food waste contributes to climate change because producing, transporting, and disposing of food all create emissions.
Which Bay Area rapper is known for “Tell Me When to Go”?
E-40
Fun fact: E-40 grew up in Vallejo.
Which of these is actually a berry according to botanists: strawberry, raspberry, or banana?
Banana!
Fun fact: Strawberries and raspberries are not botanical berries.
Song #2
Ozopuru Ini Ego - Ayaka Ozubulu
What is the largest family of flowering plants by number of known species?
Asteraceae (Daisy, Sunflower, or Aster Family)
Fun Fact: this family contains over 30,000 species.
What is one of the biggest changes a country can make to reduce its carbon emissions?
Replace fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas with clean energy, especially for electricity generation.
Fun Fact: Switching to cleaner electricity can help reduce emissions from cars, buildings, and factories.
How many cities and unincorporated towns make up the 9 counties in the bay area
101.
Fun Fact: The Bay Area consists of nine counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma.
What is the largest organ in the human body?
The skin!
Fun Fact: The average adult has approximately 20 square feet of skin.
Song #3
Una Adventura - Banda La Costeña
What is the process called when a seed begins to sprout?
Germination
Fun Fact: Some seeds stay dormant for years before they wake up.
Scientists want to limit global warming to approximately how many degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures?
1.5°C
Fun Fact: This isn't a completely safe threshold, but keeping warming near 1.5°C significantly reduces the risks of extreme heat, droughts, floods, and other climate impacts.
What famous San Francisco race features runners dressed in colorful costumes and travels from downtown to Ocean Beach?
Bay to Breakers.
Fun Fact: Bay to Breakers began in 1912 and is one of the oldest continuously held footraces in the world.
How many hearts does an octopus have?
3
Fun Fact: Two hearts pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps blood throughout the body.
Song #4
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
What california tree is famous for being amoung the tallest tree in the world?
Coast Redwood
Fun Fact: Redwoods can grow over 350 feet tall.
True or False: Food loss and waste are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions globally than the entire aviation industry.
True!
Fun Fact: Food loss and waste account for approximately 8–10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, nearly five times the emissions from aviation.
What was the first city founded in the Bay Area?
San José, California.
Fun Fact: San José was founded in 1777 as El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe.
Which country has more pyramids than Egypt?
Sudan!
Fun Fact: Sudan has more than 200 known pyramids.
Song #5
Enter Sandman