Environmental History
The holiday celebrated on April 22 every year.
What is Earth Day?
This year was the hottest year on record.
What is 2024?
The percentage of American waste that could be recyclable (your answer should be a multiple of 5).
This British woman is known for discovering that chimpanzees are not exclusively vegetarian.
Who is Jane Goodall.
This CGI teacher drives a fully electric vehicle.
The year in which Earth Day was initially created to pressure the national government into creating a federal agency to tackle environmental issues (the EPA).
What is 1970?
This large forest, often referred to as "the lungs of the Earth," is facing massive deforestation due to agriculture and illegal logging.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This type of bottle is made of up to 90% recycled glass.
What are green glass bottles?
Despite being less present in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, this greenhouse gas traps more heat in the atmosphere per molecule.
What is methane (CH4)?
This CGI teacher is a certified master gardener.
This U.S. law, passed in 1973, aimed to protect endangered species.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
In 2023, this country surpassed the United States in renewable energy capacity, becoming a global leader in solar energy.
What is China?
This type of recycling refers to the process of recreating the same product over and over again with recycled materials (for example, the aluminum recycled from a can is turned into a new aluminum can).
What is closed loop recycling?
This radical book, published by Rachel Carlson in 1962, documented environmental damage caused by pesticides.
What is Silent Spring?
This CGI teacher only likes very short hikes with very few hills.
Who is Mr. Gutch?
This ancient civilization is known to have built extensive irrigation systems that impacted the environment and often faced consequences due to deforestation.
Who were the Maya?
Trump recently dismantled a vehicle pollution cap imposed by the Biden Administration, taking away incentives for manufacturers to produce this type of vehicle.
What are electric vehicles?
The percentage of glass recycled in the US (your answer should be a multiple of 5).
What is ~30%?
Greta Thunberg lead the largest climate protest in history in this year, just 3 days before the UN Climate Summit that decided that the world must reach net zero emissions by 2050 in order to have a scientifically safe amount of climate change by 2100?
What is 2019?
This CGI teacher is hyper-aware of littering.
Who is Ms. Baptist?
This oil spill was the first major oil spill in the history of the US. It occurred in 1969 off the coast of California.
What is the Santa Barbara Oil Spill?
This slogan refers to Trump’s plans to increase oil and gas projects.
What is "drill, baby, drill"?
The phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle” was written in that order to remind people of this.
What is significance (reducing causes the largest environmental impact, then reusing, then recycling)?
Greta Thunberg started this set of strikes that centered around skipping school to protest climate change, which became very popular amongst teenagers worldwide.
What are the Fridays for Future strikes?
Who is Ms. Dorian?