Fish
Water
Air
Pollution
Misc.
100

What are the two types of water where fish may be located?

What is fresh water and salt water?

100
Chemical equation for water
What is H2O
100
Primary gas released into the atmosphere from industrial and automotive emissions responsible for global warming
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)
100
Name a way you can prevent pollution
What is use natural cleaning solutions reduce, reuse, recycle plant a tree
100
Name three things that are commonly recycled.
What is paper, plastic, and glass
200

This fish is the oldest fish in North Carolina.

What are the Atlantic Sturgeon?

200
Name two ways you can help conserve water
What is take shorter showers, turn water off while brushing teeth, limit amount of water used for watering lawns and gardens.
200
Grab your inhaler! This chronic lung disease affects more than 25 million Americans is the result of air pollution such as particulate matter, pollen, and ground level ozone.
What is asthma
200
Although these chemicals promote plant growth on farms, gardens, and golf courses they become extremely harmful when they enter the atmosphere and waterways.
What are fertilizers or pesticides
200
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
300
What are the three types of Trout?

What is Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout, and Brook Trout?

300
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.
300
The atmospheric layer where UV radiation from the sun is absorbed.
What is the ozone layer (located in the Stratosphere).
300
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emitted from industries and cars combine with precipitation in the atmosphere to form this.
What is acid rain
300
Female biologist from Pittsburgh that is often credited for advancing the environmental movement through her book Silent Spring.
Who is Rachel Carson.
400

How many types of catfish are there in North Carolina?

What is 18?

400
An area of land where any groundwater underneath of it or precipitation that falls on it drains into one river, basin, or sea.
What is a watershed
400
Name two natural processes that emit pollution into the air.
What are volcanoes and forest fires.
400
An increase in the concentration of chemical nutrients (i.e. phosphates and nitrates) in a body of water that promotes excessive algae growth which then depletes the amount of oxygen available to other organisms
What is eutrophication
400
International treaty signed in 1997 in Japan that binds industrialized nations to reduce their CO2 emissions
What is the Kyoto Protocol
500

Which type of Crappie have black stripes?

What is the White Crappie?

500
Federal law passed in 1972 that placed limits on the amounts of toxic chemicals that can be discharged into a body of water. Provisions to this act include the Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the establishment of a superfund, or CERCLA.
What is the Clean Water Act
500
Organic compound responsible for ozone depletion commonly used in refrigerants, aerosols, and solvents that has been restricted under the Montreal Protocol
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
500
Term used to describe cities that have consistently higher temperatures than surrounding areas because of a greater retention of heat from buildings, concrete, and asphalt.
What is the heat island effect
500
Theory developed by Garrett Hardin that shared common resources are more likely to be overused and degraded when individuals act to fulfill their own short-term self interests over the interests of the group.
What is Tragedy of the Commons
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