Energy
Power harvested from sunlight often through panels and converted into electricity.
What is solar power?
The chemical equation for water.
What is H2O?
Primary gas released into the atmosphere from industrial and automotive emissions responsible for global warming.
What is carbon dioxide? (CO2)
Name a way you can prevent pollution.
Use natural cleaning solutions reduce, reuse, recycle plant a tree.
How can you help the enviornment?
Teaching others about how to help the planet, conserve water, plant a tree etc.
A device that converts the wind's kinetic energy into electrical energy.
What is a wind turbine?
The main source of water for most people.
What is groundwater?
Grab your inhaler! This chronic lung disease affects more than 25 million Americans as the result of air pollution such as particulate matter, pollen, and ground-level ozone.
What is asthma?
A solid waste disposal area, a dump.
What is landfill?
Taking old materials and making them into something new.
What is recycling?
This energy source is Power produced by splitting uranium atoms through a process called fission that produces heat which creates steam used to power a turbine.
What is nuclear power?
This is the total percentage of drinking water on earth. (hint it is below 10%)
What is ~2.5%?
A region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation.
What is the ozone layer? (located in the Stratosphere).
One of the two types of land pollution; it is where plants grow.
What is soil pollution?
Name one of three things that are commonly recycled.
What is paper, plastic, and glass?
The largest country in the world that consumes the most energy per capita.
What is Iceland?
The continuous circulation of water as it evaporates from the land and sea, enters the atmosphere, condenses and precipitates to the earth's surface, then moves underground by infiltration.
What is the water cycle?
The weather conditions in an area in general or over a long period.
What is climate?
A common term for "solid waste".
What is trash?
A source of energy that is not depleted by use.
What is renewable?
Non-renewable resources derived from dead organic material (i.e. plants and dinosaurs) that has been compressed over thousands of years and extracted for energy consumption.
What is fossil fuels? (Oil, coal, natural gas)
In which state does the molecule move the slowest? And the fastest? (states of matter)
Slowest: solid Fastest: gas
Harmful rain caused by air pollution that can harm buildings and plants; causes faster erosion of land.
What is acid rain?
Although these chemicals promote plant growth on farms, gardens, and golf courses they become extremely harmful when they enter the atmosphere and waterways.
What is fertilizers or pesticides?
Measure of an individual's impact on the environment by calculating Greenhouse gas emissions from their lifestyle (i.e. consumption and transportation)
What is Carbon footprint?