Climate Science 1
Gasses in the earth's atmosphere that trap heat
What are greenhouse gasses?
A gas made by burning anything that has carbon (all plants and animals as well as fossil fuels, which were once plants and animals)
What is CO2?
List the four summer program facilitators
Who are Kaneesha, Karina, Marcus, and Joseph?
According to a study from the 1980’s, [income/race/educational level/gender/other] was the most critical factor in determining where toxic waste facilities were sited in the United States.
What is race?
Residents of the Oakland Hills are expected to live up to seven years longer than those from the flatland in West Oakland and downtown. (T or F)
What is "true"
A carbon source releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is a source?
A carbon sink is anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases.
What is a sink?
The Mayan moral code which means “You are my other me. What I do to you, I do to myself.”
What is In Lak'ech?
The complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups
What is intersectionality?
The cost of housing in Oakland is this percent higher than the national average. (Within 10% of the correct answer is ok)
What is a 99% higher cost of living?
List at least 3 examples of carbon sinks
What are trees, oceans, parks, soil, etc.?
List at least 3 examples of carbon sources
What are factories, cars, freeways, fossil fuels, deforestation etc.?
An idea that the current generation needs to live in a way that the next 7 generations of people would benefit from.
What is 7 generations thinking?
(Bonus for another 300 points: Who are the people that the seven generations idea comes from?)
The practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of color
What is segregation?
List at least three neighborhoods in Oakland
What are Fruitvale, Downtown Oakland, Temescal, Rockridge, Lake Merritt, Chinatown, etc.?
The critical point when a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place
What is a tipping point?
The large scale shift in weather and temperature mostly driven by human emissions
What is climate change?
All of the systems that allow life on earth to survive
What is the Web of Life?
Latinx Americans are exposed to _____% more pollution than they produce
What is 63%?
This ice cream flavor was invented in Oakland
What is rocky road?
Energy that comes from unlimited, naturally replenished resources, such as the sun, tides, and wind
What is renewable energy?
Energy that comes from sources that will run out, such as coal, gas, and oil.
What is non-renewable energy?
The first Earth Day occurred on this year.
What is 1970?
An example of a racial justice organization that worked on environmental justice (think back to day 1 of the program)
What is the Black Panther Party, Young Lords, etc.?
List one potential tipping point in Oakland
What is sea level rise, urban heat islands, wildfire risk, water scarcity, social and economic inequality?