The Scientific Method
The Atmosphere
Climate Change
The Ozone
Carbon
100

A hypothesis (definition)

What is an educated guess

100

The layer of the atmosphere closest to earth

What is the troposphere?
100

The geological age when human activity is the dominant influence on the environment.

What is the Antropocene?

100
The ozone filters this out

What is Ultraviolet (UV) radiation?

100

Carbon dioxide is expelled by living things through this process

What is respiration?

200

All variables that must be kept the same each time during an experiment

What is control variable

200

The layer of the atmosphere where ozone is beneficial

What is the stratosphere?

200

Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide are examples of this

What are Greenhouse Gases?

200
The ozone hole was caused by this airborne pollutant

What is Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

200

Cars, power plants and gas stoves are examples of

What is a carbon source?
300

"If I fertilize my plants, they will blossom" is an example of

What is a hypothesis?

300
The element that makes up 21% of the atmosphere

What is oxygen?

300

The amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by humans

What is 9.5 billion tons?
300

The international conference during which the world banned the use of CFCs

What is the Montreal Protocol?
300

The entire transportation sector accounts for this percentage of global carbon emissions

What is 21%?
400

The factor being manipulated in an experiment

What is the independent variable?
400

The most important agency that works on the environment

What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?

400
To eliminate the carbon emissions of an activity

What is to decarbonize?

400

Ozone is harmful when found is this layer of the atmosphere

What is troposphere?

400

This is both a carbon source and sink

What is the ocean?

500

Something an experiment must be

What is repeatable?

500

The bill that gave the EPA the authority to regulate air pollution

What is the Clean Air Act?

500

The first scientist to provide evidence of modern climate change

Who was Charles Keeling?

500
Ozone is made up of

What is three oxygen molecules?

500
A negative emission scheme that involves pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and turning it into a solid

What is direct air capture?

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