Definitions
A geographic area where living things, or biotic factors, and nonliving things, or abiotic factors, work together to create a bubble of life
What is an Ecosystem?
A linear "smart" city under construction in Saudi Arabia
What is the Line?
The natural process of recycling organic matter, such as leaves and food scraps, into a fertilizer.
What is Composting?
The purposeful clearing of forested land.
What is Deforestation?
What percentage of the earth is covered in water?
What is %70?
A measure of the carbon emissions that are emitted over the full life cycle of a product or service and usually expressed as grams of CO2-e.
What is a Carbon Footprint?
The Environmental Science teacher at Pierrepont School.
Who is Nursel?
The generation of electricity through wind in bodies of water.
What is an Offshore Wind Farm?
This web browser plants trees.
What is Ecosia?
Humans use only what percentage of all available water.
What is 1%?
The design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes.
What is Biomimicry?
What are the three categories of Sustainable Development?
What are Social, Economic, and Environmental?
A vertical built structure intentionally covered by vegetation.
What is a Vertical Garden?
Name 2 of Smokey the bears rules.
What are:
Always be careful with fire
Never play with matches or lighters
Always watch your campfire
Make sure your campfire is completely out before leaving it
This metal that can "infinitely" be recycled?
What is Aluminum?
The concentration of toxins in an organism as a result of its ingesting other plants or animals in which the toxins are more widely disbursed.
What is Biomagnification?
What is Zum?
An action that compensates for the emission of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere
What is Carbon Offsetting?
The company that says paper is sustainable.
What is the FSC?
Forest Stewardship Council
The amount of trees cut down every day?
What is 27,000?
Portraying one's company as environmentally friendly when their business practices do not back this up.
What is Green Washing?
A mining town In Australia whose population mostly lives underground.
What is Coober Pedy?
The use of the sun's energy for the heating and cooling of living spaces by exposure to the sun.
What is Passive Solar Energy?
We are losing 12 million acres of trees annually, or this country worth of trees.
What is Spain?
What avian environmental ally of Smokey Bear advises Americans: "Give a Hoot—Don't Pollute!"
Who is Woodsy Owl?