a documentary film about a campaign to educate citizens about global warming through a comprehensive slide show
What is "An Inconvenient Truth"?
100
the three components of the 3R waste hierarchy
What is "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"?
100
the population size an environment can sustain indefinitely given the food, water, habitat and other necessities available in the environment
What is carrying capacity?
100
foods that are produced using environmentally sound methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs, such as pesticides and chemical fertilizers
What are organic foods?
100
this animal returns to the grave site of its dead ancestors
What is an elephant?
200
the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere
What is water vapor?
200
types of plastic that can be recycled
What is #1-#7 plastic?
200
with 4.6% of the world's population, the US consumes this much (%) of the world's energy
What is 25%?
200
an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques
What is a GMO (genetically modified organism)?
200
unlike other cats, this animal loves to swim
What is a tiger?
300
main sources (2) of greenhouse gases due to human activity
What is fossil fuels and deforestation?
300
scientists are experimenting with recycled restaurant cooking grease to use as this renewable energy source
What are biofuels?
300
this country has the lowest population density in the world
What is Greenland?
300
this is the most popular fruit in the US, yet 100% of them are imported into the US
What are bananas?
300
this animal has the largest eyes in the world
What is a giant squid?
400
an international environmental treaty with the goal of achieving stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
400
where Ithaca residents go to dispose of household hazardous wastes
What is the D.E.P.O.T (Don't Empty Pollutants in Our Trash)?
400
if every person in the world stood shoulder to shoulder, we could all fit inside this city
What is Los Angeles?
400
this area of the US is particularly vulnerable to climate change in terms of food production
What is the Great Plains?
400
this animal is commonly accepted as the world's most agressive creature
What is a honey badger?
500
greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity
What is anthropogenic emissions?
500
yard trimmings and food compost contribute this much (%) solid waste to U.S. landfills
What is 23%?
500
the approximate number of people that have ever been born on Earth
What is 100 billion?
500
this method of growing coffee is done in a way that allows remnant forest trees to remain alive in the fields providing habitat for wildlife
What is shade-grown coffee?
500
this animal wasn't given a scientific name for 300 years because it was so delicious