Environmental Pioneers
This president created the National Forest and Parks System.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The era when humans viewed the environment as something to conquer (1607–1890).
What is Frontier Era?
The revolution that began 11,000 years ago with farming.
What is Agricultural Revolution?
Replacing forests with farmland leads to this major environmental issue.
What is Habitat destruction?
Belize’s first protected area, created in 1928.
What is Half Moon Caye Natural Monument?
This scientist wrote Silent Spring.
Who is Rachel Carson?
The deadly 1952 environmental disaster caused by air pollution.
What is London Killer Smog?
The revolution that replaced human labor with machines.
What is Industrial-Medical Revolution?
Industrialization increased this type of pollution caused by coal.
What is Air pollution?
Belize’s first national park.
What is Guanacaste National Park?
This geologist founded the Sierra Club and promoted Altruistic Preservation.
Who is John Muir?
This renaissance period saw early awareness of public health issues.
What is Middle Ages to Renaissance?
The modern revolution that uses computers and satellites.
What is Information & Globalization Revolution?
Groundwater reduction from industrialization is called this.
What is Groundwater depletion?
Founder of the Belize Zoo in 1983.
Who is Sharon Matola?
He wrote Sand County Almanac and introduced the land ethic concept.
Who is Aldo Leopold?
The 1970s are known as this environmental time period.
What is The Environmental Decade?
This revolution contributed to increased life expectancy through medicine.
What is Medical Revolution (within Industrial Revolution)?
This event in Ohio caught fire due to pollution in 1969.
What is Cuyahoga River fire?
Founder of BFREE and Bladen research station.
Who is Jacob Marlin?
He predicted that population growth would outpace food supply.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
This 1854 event revealed that cholera spread through contaminated water.
What is John Snow's Broad Street Pump discovery?
This period saw food production improve drastically about 300 years ago.
What is Second Agricultural Revolution?
Overuse of shared resources is described by this concept.
What is Tragedy of the Commons?
NASA-featured Belizean researcher who studied the barrier reef.
Who is Emil Cherrington?