Landforms
Earth's Climate & Weather
Recycling
Earth Minutiae
100
What landform has a lower section in the middle of two hills or mountains?
Valley
100
They are called hurricanes in the Atlantic and Cyclones in the Indian and South Pacific Oceans. What are these storms called in the western North Pacific?
Typhoons
100
Four of the nine common recyclables
Aluminum, Glass, Paper Plastic, Steel, Batteries, Used Oil, Household Hazardous Waste, Tires
100
Region on Earth that produces 20% of the planet’s oxygen?
The Amazon rainforest
200
What landform is a flat elevated landform?
Plateau
200
The windiest place on Earth
Greenland (specifically Cape Farewell)
200
The three R's of waste management
Reduce, reuse, recycle
200
The first Earth Day eventually led to the creation of which government agency?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
300
What landform is really tall, elevated gound?
Mountain
300
Weather pattern that is associated with unusually warm ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific?
El Nino
300
What is compost?
A type of soil
300
In Panama, 100 endangered species of what were planted for Earth Day?
Orchids
400
What landform has a flat grassy area?
Plains
400
Ocean current known as the "river in the ocean"
Gulf stream
400
The kind of recycling goes in the blue bin?
Paper, Metal, Plastic and glass
400
Equinox Earth Day
March 20
500
What landform is a smaller, easier to walk up, elevated part of the ground?
Hills
500
Term used to describe the amount of water vapor present in the air?
Humidity
500
(true or false) Recycling one plastic bottle save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for three hours.
True
500
Gaylor Nelson who is credited with founding Earth Day was the senator from which state?
Wisconsin