Native Plants/Animals
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A plant/animal is ___ to an area if it has grown/lived naturally there without human intervention.
What is native?
This is an easy/environmental friendly way to deal with food waste.
What is composting? 🌱
This is where the majority of plastic waste ends up.
Where are landfills?
This greenhouse gas is the primary cause of global warming.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
This word, starting with and S, is the focus of the Green Team.
What is sustainability?
This is the name for a non-native species.
What is an invasive species?
These three colors are each associated with different kinds of waste. ____ for trash, ____ for recycling, and ____ for composting.
What are black for trash, blue for recycling, and green for composting.
These tiny plastic fragments, less than 5mm in size, are ingested by small fish and move up the food chain, potentially to humans.
What are microplastics?
This effect is the natural trapping of heat in the atmosphere by certain gases.
What is the greenhouse effect?
*effet de serre en francais*
This is the Green Team President and Minister of Ecological Affairs.
Who is Lena Sarbanes Ehrlich?
This natural area attracts many native animals due to its damp soil and humid climate.
What are wetlands?
This is a way that schools avoid food waste so that students don't throw out the food they don't want.
What is a share table?
The name of the largest ocean dumping of plastic in the world.
What is the Pacific Patch?
This term is used to describe the total impact a person has on the environment in a certain time period.
What is a carbon footprint?
These are some of the many outings we've gone on in the club in the past. (name one correct to win)
What are ______ ?
- Beach cleanups
- Trip to the Recycling Center
- Screening of "Chasing Ice" (2023-2024)
- Trip to the West Valley Campus
- *Other correct answers*
Are American Bullfrogs native or invasive?
What is invasive?
When food decomposes in a landfill, it produces this pungent GHG.
What is methane?
Answer to the limerick:
Plastic alike
This is a nasty strike
To the oceans under a vessel's shadow
Down in the depths below.
What are oil spills?
This environmental activist helped to put an end to pollution in Sweden.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
We hold our meetings on this day.
What is Thursday?
This plant conservatory in Sun Valley (in Los Angeles), CA specializes in native plants and seeds.
What is the Theodore Payne Foundation.
What is the minimum amount of time it takes for gum to decompose?
What is 5 years?
These three number categories of plastic can be recycled in California.
(Hint: The numbers range from 1-7)
What are plastics 1, 2, and 5?
This is used to clean up oil spills.
What are hair and feathers?
This is the when and where we usually meet.
What is Room 15 on Thursdays?