Geography
This country is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide.
What is China?
The atmospheric layer where UV radiation from the sun is absorbed.
What is the ozone layer?
What are the 5 groups in GSAC?
What are Art, Education, Strike/Movement, Gardening, and Electrification?
Power is produced by splitting uranium atoms that produces heat which creates steam used to power a turbine. Results in large amounts of radioactive waste.
What is nuclear power?
The city was named after the _______.
What is the Sacramento River?
75% of volcanoes are found here.
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
The name of the famous pile of trash in the ocean.
What is "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"?
What are the three main goals for GSAC?
What are network building, bigger projects, and strategy building?
A process that compresses CO2 to store under high pressure through pipelines, and ironically used to pump more oil out of the ground.
What is Carbon Capture?
This is the city's nickname.
What is "Farm to Fork Capitol"?
Continents shift at the same speed as your _____ grow.
What are fingernails?
Two natural processes that emit pollution into the air.
Volcanic eruptions and forest fires.
SCUSD changed their goal for electrification to ____ (years)?
When is 2030/2035?
Drilling technology that injects liquid at high pressure into subterranean rocks, boreholes, and extract oil or gas.
What is fracking?
Name one city that served as capitol of CA before Sacramento.
What is Monterey, San Jose, Vallejo, or Benicia?
The smallest country, for population and land mass.
What is Vatican City?
___% of marine mammals are at risk of choking on plastic
What is 78%?
What are the benefits of joining GSAC?
What are unifying ideas, pressure towards districts, youth involvement/advocacy, making new friends, learning about the environment/our community?
A form of advertising in which green marketing is falsely claiming products, aim, or policies are environmentally friendly.
What is Greenwashing?
Sacramento's three sports teams.
What are the Kings (NBA), River Cats (MiLB), and Republic FC (USL)?
This country uses the most renewable energy, reporting 86.87% of energy coming from renewable sources.
What is Iceland?
The oldest tree is this many years old.
What is 4,853 years? (Approx. 5,000)
Name one benefit of planting native plants.
What is carbon sequestration, prevents soil erosion, habitat for wildlife.
they speed up deforestation and cause disputes whether land should be used for food or fuel crops.
What are biofuels?
There is this many non-profit organizations in Sacramento.
How much is 13,918?