Env. Science
These three words describe the standard eco-friendly practice of managing waste, often symbolized by three green arrows.
What is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?
Laws targeting "Greenhouse Gases" are trying to trap less heat from this specific star.
What is the sun?
This type of fuzzy, spore-producing fungus grows on damp walls or ceilings after a water leak and can cause chronic coughing and sneezing.
What is mold?
This destructive practice involves clearing large areas of forested land for non-forest uses, severely disrupting global carbon sinks.
What is desforestation?
This red planet is the fourth from the sun in our solar system.
What is Mars?
This process uses green plants, algae, or sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
What term describes the gradual rise in Earth's average global temperature due to trapped greenhouse gases?
What is global warming or climate change?
This type of physical pollution is caused by excessively loud airplanes, traffic, or construction that disrupts human sleep and wildlife.
What is noise pollution?
What is the term for the variety of all living things in a specific area or on Earth as a whole?
What is biodiversity?
This iconic yellow sponge lives in a pineapple under the sea in this fictional town.
What is Bikini Bottom?
This numeric scale from 0 to 14 is used by scientists to measure how acidic or basic a water sample is.
What is the pH scale?
Yellowstone was the very first of these protected federal areas created to preserve nature.
What is a National Park?
What term describes plastic pieces smaller than 5 millimeters that now pollute oceans and human bloodstreams?
What are microplastics?
What is the specific term for rain that has become highly acidic due to air pollution from burning fossil fuels?
What is acid rain?
This economic term describes a general rise in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money over time.
What is inflation?
These organisms, such as fungi and bacteria, break down dead plants and animals and return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
This annual April event started in 1970 to show support for environmental protection.
Exposure to what specific type of radiation from the sun is increased by ozone depletion and acts as the primary environmental cause of melanoma?
What are ultraviolet (UV) rays?
This specific physical phenomenon occurs when fertile land becomes progressively drier and arid, typically losing its bodies of water and vegetation.
What is desertification?
What viral video platform, launched in 2016 by ByteDance, combined with Musical.ly to become a global phenomenon?
This is the maximum population size of a species that a specific ecosystem can sustainably support without running out of resources.
What is carrying capacity?
This social movement and policy focus addresses the unfair exposure of poor and minority communities to harms like toxic waste dumps and severe pollution.
What is environmental justice (environmental racism)?
It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services. What does CDC stand for?
This term describes a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in freshwater or marine water systems, often triggered by agricultural runoff.
What is an algae bloom?
This is the only type of mammal capable of true, sustained flight.