Environmental Practices
To use resources carefully without completely depleting them for future generations is known as this.
What is conservation?
Which was the first National Park?
What is Yellowstone?
What 2019 hashtag went viral for cleaning up litter?
What is #TrashTag?
What time are we meeting at the ARC on Saturday for the hike?
When is 9:00 AM?
What animal has the thickest fur of any mammal?
What are sea otters?
Which greenhouse gas contributes most to climate change?
In 1962, Rachel Carson wrote about the harmful effects of DDT and other pesticides in her best-selling book. This book kick-started the modern environmental movement, spurring awareness of environmental toxins. What was this book called?
What is Silent Spring?
Aged 15 years old at the time, what Swedish environmentalist said, "You are never too small to make a difference," in her 2019 speech "Climate Justice Now" at an international conference in Poland?
Who is Greta Thunberg?
What section is SCB Davis a part of?
The North American section (SCBNA)
Which -ology comes from ancient Greek words and focuses on how organisms relate to the environment they live in?
What is ecology?
What is the average amount of time a plastic bag is used?
What are 12 minutes?
Historically and globally, this is recognized as the single greatest driver of terrestrial biodiversity loss.
What is habitat destruction, degradation, and fragmentation?
What US federal law was passed in 1963 to control pollution?
What is the Clean Air Act?
What is Anderson’s position?
What is the president of SCBNA?
In 2015, this ocean phenomenon was mapped for the first time. Located between California and Hawaii, the area is three times the size of France. It contains 88 thousand tons of floating plastic. What is it called?
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
___ are used to process food scraps and other organics in a process called vermicomposting.
What are red earthworms?
How many plastic razors are thrown away each year?
What is 2 billion?
This law passed in the U.S. in 1973 is designed to protect imperiled plants, animals, and their habitats.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
What year was Society for Conservation Biology, Davis founded?
What is 2009?
Which annual global event started in the late 1960s with environmental teaching across US college campuses?
What is Earth Day?
In which state did the first mandatory curbside pickup recycling program take place in 1980?
What is New Jersey?
Which inorganic molecule is found at a higher concentration in the Earth’s stratosphere than the other atmospheric layers?
What is ozone?
Where are the headquarters of the United Nations Environmental Program?
Where is Nairobi, Kenya?
List our three committees:
What are Education and Outreach, Funding and Social Events, and Conservation?
How many total species have been described and named out of the estimated 5-100 million species on Earth?
What is 2 million?