Climate Science 1
Gasses in the earth's atmosphere that trap heat
What are greenhouse gasses?
A gas made by burning anything that has carbon (all plants and animals as well as fossil fuels, which were once plants and animals)
What is CO2?
List at least four program facilitators
Who are Marcus, Karina, Angelia, Jacky, Edward Cece, Azriel, Nishan, Nia, and Danny?
The practice of replanting trees in deforested areas to restore ecosystems and combat climate change
What is reforestation?
Residents of the Oakland Hills are expected to live up to seven years longer than those from the flatland in West Oakland and downtown. (T or F)
What is "true"
A carbon source that releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than it absorbs.
What is a source?
A carbon sink is anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases.
What is a sink?
The Mayan moral code which means “You are my other me. What I do to you, I do to myself.”
What is In Lak'ech?
This is the idea that everyone should be treated fairly, no matter what they look like or where they come from.
What is equality?
The cost of housing in Oakland is this percent higher than the national average. (Within 10% of the correct answer is ok)
What is a 82% higher cost of living?
List at least 3 examples of carbon sinks
What are trees, oceans, parks, soil, etc.?
List at least 3 examples of carbon sources
What are factories, cars, freeways, fossil fuels, deforestation etc.?
A delay between an action and its full impact on the environment. Is 30 to 40 years behind.
What is the lag effect?
A situation where certain communities, often low-income or made up of people of color, face more pollution and environmental harm than wealthier neighborhoods.
The harms can lead to health issues like asthma and cancer because of government decisions and the placement of factories or waste sites in these areas.
What is environmental injustice
List at least three neighborhoods in Oakland
What are Fruitvale, Downtown Oakland, Temescal, Rockridge, Lake Merritt, Chinatown, etc.?
The critical point when a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place
What is a tipping point?
The large-scale shift in weather and temperature is mostly driven by human activity
What is climate change?
A way of looking at all of the systems that work together that allow life on Earth to survive.
What is the Web of Life?
This unfair practice involves the government marking neighborhoods where people of color live as "risky." Because of this, people in those neighborhoods find it very hard to get loans for homes or insurance, which makes it tough for them to improve their communities or build wealth.
What is red-lining?
This ice cream flavor was invented in Oakland
What is rocky road?
Resources that come from unlimited, naturally replenished sources such as sun, wind, and water that can turn into useable energy
What is renewable energy?
Energy that comes from sources that will run out, such as coal, gas, and oil.
What is non-renewable energy?
Organizations like Communities for a Better Environment work together to hold corporations accountable by advocating for following and challenging regulations that reduce environmental harm, protecting the health and well-being of local communities.
What is community organizing?
This group represents the future. They have the energy and creativity to fight environmental issues by using organizing and education to push for justice.
Who are the youth?
List one potential tipping point in Oakland
What is sea level rise, urban heat islands, wildfire risk, water scarcity, social and economic inequality?