Jordan
Conservation
Historical Milestones
Pollution
Ozone and Global Warming
100
The national flower of Jordan
What is Black Iris
100
The definition of conservation
What is the action of preserving, or protecting, something?
100
The date in which the first recorded Earth day was
When is April 22, 1970?
100
Types of pollution (name three)
What is land, air, water, noise, light, thermal and radioactive pollution?
100
The term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and its oceans.
What is Global Warming?
200
According to the World Bank, Jordan ranks as the worlds poorest country in terms of water resources.
What is Fourth?
200
Species found only in a particular area
What is indigenous or endemic?
200
The author of "Silent Spring"
Who was Rachel Carson?
200
Mining and quarrying, over-grazing/farming, sewage sludge, demolitions and constructions are types of what pollution?
What is land pollution?
200
The amount that the Earth's average temperature has risen over the past 100 years.
What is 0.4 degrees celsius?
300
The length of the Jordanian coastline in Aqaba.
What is 27 Kilometers?
300
The type of organism which is at most risk from over-exploitation
What are vertebrates?
300
The year in which the ozone hole over Antartica was over 25 million square kilometers
What is 1998?
300
The type of pollution in which you will not be able to see the starts are night?
What is light pollution?
300
The purpose of the Earth's outer atmosphere
What is to deflect solar radiation?
400
The number of avian species in the Azraq Wetland Reserve
What is 370 species?
400
The reason for earlier flowering times in the spring.
What is Climate Change?
400
The date in which the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) was established
When was December 2, 1970?
400
The most polluted country as of 2013 (according to the New York Times)
What is Linfen, China?
400
Industrial applicants, refrigeration, dry cleaning, chemical manufacturing, and hydroflourocarbons.
What are harmful substances to the Ozone layer?
500
The organization that was the forefront of Jordanian efforts for wildlife conservation and the first non-governmental organization of its kind in the Arab world
What is the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature?
500
The amount of years in which the world would continue to heat itself up if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases.
What is 50 years
500
A novel written by Henry David Thoreau, which lamented the rise of industrialization and the destruction of wilderness
What is Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"?
500
A tiny piece of solid, or liquid, matter suspended in the air
What are particulates?
500
The element that comprises Ozone
What is O3?
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