Climate Change
the most commonly littered item in the world
what are cigarette butts?
long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns
what is climate change
Ecosystem that Devon worked in for 6 months last yr
What is Salt marsh
the largest ocean in the world
what is the Pacific
Fortune 500 company that was the top solar panel user in 2016
2 greenhouse gasses
what are CO2, Methane, CFCs, Nitrous oxide, etc
Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
what is ecology
99 percent of climate scientists who are actively publishing agree that climate change is likely due to human activity.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE
tree that produces acorns
what is oak?
two materials that can be recycled indefinitely
what are Glass and aluminum
Where some of the strongest and earliest impacts of global warming occurred?
In northern latitudes
It is the "mark" that you leave in the environment each time you use fossil fuel.
What is Carbon Footprint?
Aged 15 years old at the time, the Swedish environmentalist that said, "You are never too small to make a difference," in her 2019 speech "Climate Justice Now" at an international conference in Poland?
Who is Greta Thunberg
the first National Park?
What is Yellowstone?
Name 3 renewable energy sources
Wind!!!, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, etc
the Greenhouse effect
When the gasses in our atmosphere trap heat and block it from escaping our planet
non-living components; such as water, soil and atmosphere
what is abiotic
country that releases the most co2 annually
what is China?
the deepest point in our oceans called?
what is The Mariana Trench?
Brand that was the first to turn plastic waste into clothing?
Some kinds of pollution in the atmosphere can act to cool the planet by reducing the amount of solar radiation that reaches Earth's surface.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE (aerosols)
It refers to the extreme warming of the central and eastern Pacific.
El Niño or La Nina
what is El Niño
The President that created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)? The agency officially opened on December 2, 1970.
The infamous "hole" in the ozone layer, nearly nine million square miles in size, lies mostly over what continent?
What is Antartica
Average amount of time a plastic bag is used
Average amount of time that plastic bag takes to decompose
What is 12 minutes
what is Over 1,000 years. Every piece of plastic ever made, unless recycled, is still on Earth.