The Enviroment
Hydropower and geothermal energy allow this island country to generate essentially all its electricity from renewable sources.
What is Iceland?
This transboundary river regularly carries sewage and other contamination into the South Bay.
What is the Tijuana River?
Among beef, pork, grains, and fruit, this food generally has the largest water footprint per pound.
What is Beef?
New Epsilon Eta members receive this plant-inspired name.
What is a sprout?
San Diego’s dry summers and cooler, wetter winters characterize this climate type.
What is a Mediterranean climate?
This dense, woody shrubland is common on San Diego hillsides and adapted to periodic wildfire.
What is chaparral?
A front lawn being irrigated at 17 gallons per minute uses this many gallons in one hour. (no phones or calculators!!)
What is 1020 gallons?
This global environment stores vastly more carbon than forests, lakes, or the atmosphere.
What are the oceans?
Celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal, San Diego's Balboa Park hosted the World's Fair in this decade.
What are the 1910s
This song is the only song to reach the top 10 on a Billboard chart in three separate decades. Also an anagram of "Hah, boys mind opera”.
What is Bohemian Rhapsody?
Plants release water vapor into the atmosphere through this process.
What is transpiration?
These chlorine-containing chemicals were the principal historical cause of stratospheric ozone depletion.
What are chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs?
The University of California San Diego's Theodore Geisel Library is named for a writer who might be better recognized by this pen name”.
Who is Dr. Suess
Obama defeated these republican presidential nominees in 2008 and 2012, respectively.
Who are John McCain and Mitt Romney?
This underground formation of permeable rock or sediment stores and transmits groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
Who was Baxter.
Translated to “Out of many, one" what Latin phrase appears on the “tails” side of many US coins?
What is E Pluribus Unum
Excess nutrients in water can trigger algal blooms and oxygen depletion—a process called this
What is eutrophication?