Climate + Energy
The trapping of heat by gases in the atmosphere is known as this effect.
What is the Greenhouse effect?
What are non living factors that contribute to the environment?
What are Abiotic factors?
What is the most prominent form of pollution?
What is air pollution?
Over 97% of Earth’s water is this type, making it unsuitable for drinking.
What is saltwater?
This is the only letter of the alphabet not found in any U.S. state name.
What is Q?
This fossil fuel releases the most carbon per unit of energy.
What kind of relationship does biodiversity have with environmental health?
Proportional Relationship
How many deaths occur annually due to air pollution?
About 7 million
This ocean is the largest and deepest on Earth, home to the Mariana Trench.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
How many turkeys are eaten each year at Thanksgiving?
46 million turkeys
When ice and snow melt, Earth absorbs more sunlight — this feedback is called?
What is the albedo effect?
What biome holds the most biodiversity?
Rainforest Biomes
In what kind of weather is smog the worst?
In hot, sunny weather
This process, which increases the ocean’s acidity, happens when seawater absorbs excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is ocean acidification?
Honey is remarkable because it never does this.
What is spoil?
This renewable energy source has the highest capacity factor in the United States outperforming solar, wind, and even coal.
What is nuclear power?
What is the phase that colonizes an area with no soil to make it habitable?
What is Primary Succession?
What pollutant damages tree foliage, acidifies water, and degrades soil?
Acid precipitation (acid rain)
This term describes the boundary where freshwater from rivers mixes with salty seawater.
What is an estuary?
This animal can regrow lost limbs, including parts of its heart and brain.
What is an axolotl?
This global pressure-belt system, driven by rising warm air at the equator and sinking cool air at 30° latitude, helps determine the distribution of tropical rainforests and deserts.
What is the Hadley cell?
What year was the term “biodiversity” created? (Hint in the 1980s)
1986
The emission of which two air pollutants forms tropospheric ozone?
What are NO2 and VOCs?
This unique zone of the ocean, beginning around 200 meters deep, receives little sunlight and is home to bioluminescent creatures.
What is the twilight zone (mesopelagic zone)?
This mathematician, executed in 415 CE, is often considered the first known woman to make substantial contributions to mathematics, particularly in the fields of algebra and conic sections.
Who was Hypatia?