History
The day considered to be Earth Day
What is April 22nd?
Power harvested from sunlight often through photovoltaic panels and converted into electricity
What is solar power?
Name a way you can prevent pollution
What is reduce, reuse, recycle, plant a tree, using renewable energy, pick up trash, etc.
Name two projects the Carver Environmental Club worked on this past year.
Pollinator garden, composting program, Earth week, field trips, etc.
The subject zoologist Jane Goodall studied
What are chimpanzees?
Non-renewable resources derived from dead organic material (i.e. plants and dinosaurs) that has been compressed over thousands of years and extracted for energy consumption
What are fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, coal)?
Although these chemicals promote plant growth on farms, gardens, and golf courses they become extremely harmful when they enter the atmosphere and waterways.
What are pesticides / what are fertilizers?
The location the Carver Environmental Club went for a field trip last year
What is the MD Zoo?
What did Great Thunberg strike for better climate policy?
What is school?
This energy source became even more controversial after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan. Power is produced by splitting uranium atoms through a process called fission that produces heat which creates steam used to power a turbine.
What is nuclear power?
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emitted from industries and cars combine with precipitation in the atmosphere to form this.
What is acid rain?
Name three officers of the Carver Environmental Club
Who is Catie Grace, Polly, Ellie, Cameron, Hana, and Anna?
Author of 'Silent Spring,' who focused on the environmental and health dangers of synthetic pesticides?
Who is Rachel Carson?
This dam produces enough hydroelectric power to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, California, and Arizona
What is the Hoover dam?
Term used to describe cities that have consistently higher temperatures than surrounding areas because of a greater retention of heat from buildings, concrete, and asphalt
What is urban heat island effect?
The name of the competition the Carver Environmental Club placed 3rd place in this year
What is the CleanGreen15?