Electricity consuption and prudoction
This gas, the cleanest-burning fossil fuel, is often used to generate electricity and heat homes.
What is natural gas?
This European Union policy package aims to make the EU climate-neutral by 2050.
71%
How mumch of Earth's surface is covered by water?
Burning fossil fuels releases this greenhouse gas, the biggest driver of global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
This type of area is protected by law to preserve natural resources and wildlife.
What is a national park?
An power plant that uses nuclear fission
What's a nuclear reactor?
This U.S. government agency is responsible for enforcing environmental laws.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This term refers to water pollution caused by acumulation ofsmall polutants over a large area rather then a single discrete point.
What is nonpoint source pollution?
It's a type of potentialy harmful fog that appears in big cities like London which used to have a very big problem with i t in the 1950s.
What is smog?
This term refers to a species that is at serious risk of extinction.
What is endangered?
A energy production plant that produces electricity by joining atoms toghether
What is a fusion rector?
This act, passed in 1972, regulates discharges of pollutants into U.S. waters.
What is the Clean Water Act?
The underground layer of water-bearing rock that stores freshwater.
What is an aquifer?
This dangerous phenomenon occurs when nitrogen and sulfur compounds mix with rainwater.
What is acid rain?
This Czech national park borders Germany and protects a large section of the Bohemian Forest.
What is Šumava National Park?
China
What country consumes the most electricity per capita?
This international agreement signed in 2015 aims to limit global warming to below 2°C.
What is the Paris agreement?
Watershed
What is an area of land where water drains into a common outlet river or sea called?
This, in most isotopes radioactive, element, released by nuclear bombs, stores itself in human bones causing cancer. It's one of the main reasons why nuclear test are conducted underground.
What is Cesium?
This organization, symbolized by a panda, works globally to protect wildlife and habitats.
What is the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)?
The process used for fertilizer production that consumes 1-3% of the worlds energy, produces 1-2% of the world's CO2 emissions and prodeces 96% of the worlds ammonia
What is the Haber-Bosch process?
An agreement banning the usage of CFC
What is the Montreal protocol?
It's planetary body with most water in the solar system.
What is unique about Saturn moon Enceladus?
It is the chemical agent containing a dioxin that still contaminates parts of Vietnam
What is Agent Orange?
The practice of restoring land to its natural state after it has been mined or industrially used.
What is land reclamation or ecological restoration?