Weather & Climate
What is short-term atmospheric conditions vs long term patterns
The term that describes a group of organisms living in the same area.
What is a population?
What are the 3R's of waste management?
What is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
This is NC's most common natural disaster.
What is a hurricane?
Which program on our campus raises awareness of waste management issues and sustainability for the NC A&T community?
What is the Waste Management Institute?
Which greenhouse gas is most responsible for human-driven climate change?
A species that has a disproportionately large impact on its ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
This environmental concept is a measure of human demand on our natural resources.
What is a carbon footprint?
This renewable energy source has rapidly expanded in eastern North Carolina, especially in rural counties.
What is solar energy (solar farms)?
This campus research and agricultural site supports sustainable farming practices and environmental education.
What is the University Farm?
The ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that casues warmer winters in North America and droughts in Australia
What is El Niño?
The term that describes the movement of toxic substances up a food chain.
What is biomagnification?
This process converts atmospheric nitrogen into a biologically usable form.
What is nitrogen fixation?
This major North Carolina industry has significant environmental impacts related to nutrient runoff, lagoon waste, and water quality.
What is hog farming (swine production)?
What year was the Earth and Environmental Science Club founded?
2019
This atmospheric layer contains most weather events and hold 75% of the atmosphere's mass.
What is the troposphere?
The biome that contains the highest biodiversity on Earth.
What is a tropical rainforest?
This concept describes how environmental burdens affect marginalied or low-income communities.
What is environmental injustice?
This North Carolina mountain range is among the oldest in the world and plays a major role in regional biodiversity and water systems.
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains (Appalachian Mountains)?
What organization on campus researches the links and effects of climate change on marginalized communities?
What is the Climate Resilience Center?
This global wind belt is responsible for much of the weather movement in the US.
What are the Westerlies?
The ecological principle that states no two species can occupy the same niche in the same environment.
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
This process refers to the depletion of groundwater faster than it can naturally recharge.
What is groundwater overdraft (aquifer depletion)
This 2014 environmental disaster in North Carolina involved a coal ash spill that contaminated the Dan River.
What is the Dan River Coal Ash Spill?
What research center on campus focuses on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and alternative fuels?
What is the Center for Energy Research and Technology?