Our fragile earth
This gas, produced by cars and factories, is the main contributor to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
This large black-and-white bear from China is known for eating bamboo.
This is the only planet known to support life.
What is earth?
Polar bears live on ice in this cold region.
What is the arctic?
Coral reefs are threatened by warming oceans and this process, where corals lose their color.
What is bleaching?
The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is mostly made up of this material.
What is plastic?
The dodo bird, now extinct, was native to this island nation in the Indian Ocean.
This natural satellite orbits Earth and controls the tides.
What is the moon?
Kangaroos are native to this country.
What is australia?
Oil spills are especially damaging because oil does not do this in water.
This international agreement, signed in 2015, set goals for reducing global carbon emissions.
What is the Paris Agreement?
These large sea creatures, including the blue species, are threatened by ship strikes and climate change.
What are whales?
This is the fourth planet from the sun
What is Mars?
Rainforests are hot, wet, and full of these tall plants.
The majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from tiny ocean plants called this.
What are phytoplankton?
Deforestation of this rainforest, often called “the lungs of the Earth,” is a major environmental concern.
What is the amazon?
This international treaty bans trade in endangered species
What is CITES?
About 70% of Earth’s surface is covered by this.
What is water?
Elephants can be found in the savannas of this continent.
What is the dessert?
This floating ring-shaped island, made from coral, is highly vulnerable to sea level rise.
What is an atoll?
The term for species that no longer exist anywhere on Earth.
What is extinct?
The last known passenger pigeon died in 1914 in this U.S. city’s zoo.
What is Cincinnati?
The invisible blanket of gases that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The famous pixar character, Nemo, likes to live in this.
What are coral reefs?
The deepest part of the world’s oceans, located in the Pacific near Guam.
What is the mariana trench?