General Environmental
This region in South America is often referred to as the “lungs of the earth”.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Ann Arbor accepts these three recycling numbers.
What is 1, 2, and 5?
This oil company was responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, which dumped 206 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is BP?
This is the only National Park in the State of Michigan.
What is Isle Royale?
The Appalachian Trail passes through these states (name at least three).
What are Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, & Maine.
Coming in after water vapor and carbon dioxide, this is the third most abundant greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is methane?
At UM, anyone can undergo training to be this type of Ambassador.
What is a Planet Blue Ambassador?
This international treaty, signed at COP21, set the goal to limit global average temperatures to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
What is The Paris Agreement?
This was the First National Park established in the United States.
What is Yellowstone?
Other than the Appalachian Trail, it is these two major U.S. scenic trails that make up the “Triple Crown” of hiking.
What are the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) and Pacific Crest Trail (PCT)?
This sector accounts for roughly 75% of CO2 emissions globally.
What is the energy sector?
This is the name of Ann Arbor's plan for achieving a just transition to community-wide carbon neutrality by 2030.
What is A2Zero?
The first Earth Day eventually led to the creation of this U.S. government agency.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.)?
This State has the most National Parks with 9 in total. Bonus 100 points for every one you can name
What is California? (Yosemite, Joshua Tree, King’s Canyon, Death Valley, Redwoods, Sequoia, Pinnacles, Lassen Volcanic, Channel Islands)
This trail in the Sierra Nevadas is named after a famous naturalist and passes through three different national parks.
What is the John Muir Trail?
This region is warming roughly 4 times faster than anywhere else on earth.
What is the Arctic?
UM is aiming to be carbon neutral across all three campuses by this year.
What is 2040?
This American river caught fire in 1969, and ultimately spurred the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
This is the smallest national park by area in the United States.
What is Gateway Arch?
This 2000 mile trail in Michigan is currently under construction and will connect Belle Isle, Detroit to Ironwood in the UP.
What is the Belle Isle Trail?
This organization is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
Ann Arbor’s groundwater is contaminated by this chemical due to decades of waste dumping by Gelman Sciences.
What is 1,4-dioxane?
This U.N. body was formed in 1983, and defined "sustainable development" in its 1987 report, Our Common Future.
What is the Brundtland Commission?
This national park in Oregon features the deepest lake in the United States.
What is Crater Lake?
This Trail, which is almost entirely in Wisconsin, follows the southernmost extent of the last period of glaciation.
What is the Ice Age Trail?