Recycling
Some grocery stores have announced their intention to stop offering these kinds of bags
What is plastic?
Those who have the magic touch in the garden are said to have this.
What is a green thumb?
Air pollution can trigger allergies and this breathing attack.
What is asthma?
The government agency set up in 1972 to deal with different kinds of pollution?
What is the Environmental Protection Agency or EPA?
This national bird of the United States was once on the endangered species list
What is the bald eagle?
Name three things which can be RECYCLED?
What is Glass, Plastic, Cardboard
Recycling is part of the waste disposal cycle, and this catchphrase captures the hierarchy.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
One way to reduce indoor air pollution is to use this pantry ingredient as a natural air freshener in the refrigerator and on carpets
What is baking soda?
Most of Earth’s breathable air comes from here.
What is the ocean? The ocean produces oxygen through the plants (phytoplankton, kelp, and algal plankton) that live in it.
What does the Endangered Species Act protect? (2 answers)
What is plants and animals?
How long does it take for one plastic bottle to degrade in a landfill?
What is 1,000 years.
Name two things chlorophyll does for plants.
What is gives them their green color and helps to produce energy, absorb light.
Humans have been blamed for excessive carbon dioxide output, but without it, these life forms couldn’t live.
What are plants?
This is the term for variety in nature.
What is biodiversity?
The first animal added to the Endangered Species list due to climate change.
What is the polar bear?
Composting requires air and water, and these invertebrates can accelerate the process.
What are worms?
When humans do things such as growing their own food, using natural ingredients, recycling, etc., this is the generic term used to describe the process.
What is going green?
This country contributes the most to the world’s carbon footprint
What is China?
Ecologists study the relationship between the environment and these things
What are living things? They also study how living things use natural resources to sustain life.
Ninety-nine percent of at-risk species are at-risk because of this.
What is human activity (or anything close)
What had to be taken out of gasoline to make less pollution?
What is lead?
Ice melting in this country contributes more than a millimeter rise to sea level every year.
What is Greenland?
This device added to a car‘s exhaust system eliminates much of the pollution produced by gas combustion.
A catalytic converter
This phenomenon is causing coral die-off.
What is coral bleaching? Algae lives in coral tissue and is the food source for coral. Warming waters and pollution cause coral to expel the algae. The coral loses its color and becomes more susceptible to disease.
Bees are disappearing in astonishing quantities. This is the term for the phenomenon.
What is colony collapse disorder?