Energy
Power harvested from sunlight often through photovoltaic panels and converted into electricity.
What is solar power?
Federal law passed in 1972 that placed limits on the amounts of toxic chemicals that can be discharged into a body of water. Provisions to this act include the Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the establishment of a superfund, or CERCLA.
What is the Clean Water Act?
Although these chemicals promote plant growth on farms, gardens, and golf courses they become extremely harmful when they enter the atmosphere and waterways.
What are fertilizers or pesticides?
(multiple possible answers)
Define ethos, pathos, and logos.
Non-renewable resources derived from dead organic material (i.e. plants and dinosaurs) that has been compressed over thousands of years and extracted for energy consumption.
Biologist often credited with getting DDT banned in the U.S. through her book Silent Spring.
Who is Rachel Carson?
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emitted from industries and cars combine with precipitation in the atmosphere to form this.
Name two on-campus (OU) sustainability efforts.
(multiple possible answers)
Write an example of ethos, pathos, or logos.
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This dam produces enough hydroelectric power to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, California, and Arizona
In this year, China began heavily restricting the waste and recyclables it would accept from other countries.
What is 2018?
Primary gas released into the atmosphere from industrial and automotive emissions responsible for global warming
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Name two environmentally-friendly aspects of Ohio University's EcoHouse.
(multiple possible answers)
Define rhetoric.
What is "the art of persuasion?"
The 4th largest country in the world that consumes the most energy per capita.
What is China?
Name two laws the U.S. government has put in place to help the environment.
(multiple possible answers)
Organic compound responsible for ozone depletion commonly used in refrigerants, aerosols, and solvents that has been restricted under the Montreal Protocol
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
An environmental issue that plagues Lake Erie. (be specific)
What are algae blooms?
What the Problem Statement section of your Final Report should include.
Identification of the problem, explanation of how the problem has been addressed in the past, research about the problem, etc.
The U.S. city with the most sustainable architecture or the highest green building index.
What is Chicago?
International treaty signed in 1997 in Japan that binds industrialized nations to reduce their CO2 emissions
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
In March, the United Nations Environmental Assembly developed a legally-binding resolution to end plastic pollution by which year?
What is 2024?
A land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually to outflow points such as reservoirs, bays, and the ocean.
A Greek Philosopher known as the "Father of Rhetoric."
Who is Aristotle?