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What is the scientific term for animals that primarily eat both plants and animals?
What are Omnivores?
What greenhouse gas is released in especially large quantities when coal, oil, and natural gas are burned?
What is Carbon Dioxide?
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What is weather changing short term while climate describes long-term patterns and averages?
Which usually has the greatest environmental benefit: reducing, reusing, or recycling?
What is Reducing?
What do you call a crop planted primarily to protect and improve soil rather than for harvest
What is a cover crop?
What term describes a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its ecosystem compared with its abundance?
What are Keystone Species?
What type of nuclear reaction is currently used in commercial nuclear power plants?
What is Nuclear Fission?
What is the term for the process in which gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap heat near the surface?
What is the Greenhouse effect?
What material makes up the biggest portion by weight of what is recycled?
What is paper?
Which farming practice leaves plant residue on the soil surface and reduces erosion by minimizing soil disturbance?
What is No-Till farming?
How many native woodlands are there in Nebraska?
What is 2?
What does LED stand for?
What is a Light Emitting Diode?
Which greenhouse gas is released in large amounts by burning fossil fuels and is central to the modern carbon cycle?
What is CO2?
What gas is generated when organic waste decomposes without oxygen in landfills?
What is Methane?
A combination of drought, strong winds, and extensive soil disturbance/removal of native vegetation caused enormous amounts of Great Plains topsoil to blow away in this event.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Where can you find the Salt Creek Tiger Beetle, an endangered species endemic to Nebraska?
What is Lancaster County?
Which state has the most wind turbines in the country?
What is Texas?
What are two major natural things remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
What are Plants and the Ocean?
What is e-waste?
What is discarded electronic devices and components?
hat is soil organic matter primarily made from?
What is decomposed plant and animal material?
What is the wildlife corridor concept designed to accomplish?
What is connecting fragmented habitats so organisms can move between them?
Where was the 1893 World’s Fair, which was the first time electric lightbulbs were seen in public use?
What is Chicago?
Why can a warmer ocean contribute to climate change as well as sea-level rise?
What is warm water holding less dissolved carbon dioxide and the ocean also storing and redistributing large amounts of heat?
Why should lithium-ion batteries be kept out of ordinary household trash and curbside recycling bins?
What is a fire hazard?
What is Nebraska’s State Soil?
What is the Holdredge soil profile?