Climate Facts
Which sector emits the MOST CO₂ globally (transport, agriculture, or electricity)
What is electricity/energy production?
This volcanic European nation heats around 90% of its homes using geothermal energy, making it a global renewable energy leader.
What is Iceland?
This natural light show occurs near the poles due to solar particles interacting with Earth’s atmosphere.
What are the auroras? (or Northern Lights)
In 1959, a Treaty was signed to designate this region exclusively for scientific research and peaceful purposes.
What is Antarctica?
The world’s largest rainforest is located in South America and is known as this.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
What human activity is the largest cause of rising CO₂ levels worldwide?
What is Burning fossil fuels?
This country is the world’s largest producer of solar energy.
What is China?
This salty body of water is so dense that people can float effortlessly on its surface.
What is the Dead Sea?
In 1963, the Partial Test Ban Treaty banned the testing of these devices in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Underwater.
What are nuclear weapons? (or atomic weapons)
This U.S. national park is famous for geysers like Old Faithful.
What is Yellowstone?
This greenhouse gas is over 25× stronger than CO₂ at trapping heat.
What is methane?
This Middle Eastern nation remains the world’s largest exporter of crude oil, shipping more barrels than any other country.
What is Saudi Arabia?
This rare lake phenomenon causes deep water to rise to the surface, bringing nutrients with it.
What is upwelling?
The Ozone Hole has shrunk in size every year since the Montreal Protocol in 1987 banned this refrigerant worldwide.
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
Located off the coast of Australia, this is the largest coral reef system on Earth.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
This term describes the warming that continues even after emissions are reduced.
What is climate lag?
This country leads the world in wind power generation per capita.
What is Denmark?
This geographic point in the ocean is so remote that spacecraft are often deorbited there.
What is Point Nemo?
Occurrence of this weather phenomenon has been exceedingly rare since the 1994 Oslo Protocol reduced global emissions of Sulfur Dioxide.
What is Acid Rain?
This South American mountain range is the longest continental mountain range in the world.
What are the Andes?
This scientific term describes feedback loops where warming triggers changes that cause even more warming.
What are positive feedbacks?
This Asian country has electrified 99.4% of its national rail network, nearly eliminating diesel trains.
What is India?
This desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, with areas receiving almost no rainfall.
What is the Atacama Desert?
Under the Paris Agreement, nations agreed to limit global temperature rise to what maximum level?
What is 2 degrees Celsius?
These unique glowing organisms light up beaches at night in places like the Maldives.
What is bioluminescent plankton?