Env. Science
These three words describe the standard eco-friendly practice of managing waste, often symbolized by three green arrows.
What is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
Laws targeting "Greenhouse Gases" are trying to trap less heat from this specific star.
What is the sun?
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?
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 red planet is the fourth from the sun in our solar system.
What is Mars?
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.
What is Earth Day?
What term describes tiny plastic pieces smaller than 5 millimeters that now pollute oceans and human bloodstreams?
What are microplastics?
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 iconic yellow sponge lives in a pineapple under the sea in this fictional town.
What is Bikini Bottom?
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?
Yellowstone was the very first of these protected federal areas created to preserve nature.
What is a National Park?
It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services. What does CDC stand for?
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention?
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 economic term describes a general rise in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money over time.
What is inflation?
This natural process traps heat in Earth's atmosphere, keeping the planet warm enough to sustain life.
What is the greenhouse effect?
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 (or environmental racism)?
Exposure to this heavy metal, often found in old paint and pipes, can cause brain damage and developmental delays in young children. What is it?
What is lead?
What do we call a species that has a uniquely large and critical impact on maintaining the structure of its entire ecosystem?
What is a keystone species?
What viral video platform, launched in 2016 by ByteDance, combined with Musical.ly to become a global phenomenon?
This 3-letter gas in the stratosphere protects Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is ozone (O₃)?
Established in 1970 under President Richard Nixon, this federal agency is responsible for writing and enforcing regulations to protect human health and the environment. (Hint: the acronym is EPA)
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
What colorless, odorless gas from burning fuel prevents human red blood cells from carrying oxygen, causing suffocation and death?
What is carbon monoxide (CO)?
What is the common name for the massive patch of floating garbage and plastics located in the Pacific Ocean?
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
This is the only type of mammal capable of true, sustained flight.