Epidemic
What do you call it when a disease spread super fast across multiple countries of the whole world?
What is a pandemic?
What is the name of the virus that actually causes the condition known as AIDS?
What is HIV?
Which giant South American rainforest is losing trees, faster than almost anywhere?
What is the Amazon?
What is the name of the effect where gases in the atmosphere trap heat and warm up the plant?
What is the greenhouse effect?
What was the main goal of the Green Revolution back in the 1950s and 1960s?
What is growing more food to stop hunger?
This 1918 flew outbreak killed millions and as often compared to the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
What is the Spanish flu?
In which decade did AIDS crisis first become a major headline in public health emergency?
What are the 1980s?
What is the main reason forests are being cleared to make room for what?
What is farming?
Most scientists agree that burning these is the main reason the Earth is warming up.
What are fossil fuels?
Norman Borlaug created a special short version of this crop that wouldn’t fall over and produced way more grain.
What is wheat?
What is the name of the organization (part of the UN) that tracks disease outbreaks around the globe?
What is the World Health Organization?
This was the first major drug used to treat HIV that was super expensive and had a tough side effects at first.
What is AZT?
Because trees breathe in carbon dioxide, cutting the trees down makes the environmental problem way worse.
What is global warming?
This 2015 international agreement has almost every country promise to try and keep global warming below 2 degrees.
What is the Paris Agreement?
Besides new seeds, what is the other main ingredient farmers had to use a lot more of to make the crops grow?
What is fertilizer?
This deadly disease was officially “erased” from the world in 1918 thanks to a massive global vaccine.
What is smallpox?
What is the name of the giant memorial project where families made fabric panels to remember those who died from the disease?
What is the AIDS memorial quilt?
What is the term for the loss of different types of animals and plants when their forest homes are destroyed?
What is the loss of biodiversity?
What is the name of the gas that humans release the most of when they drive cars or run factories?
What is carbon dioxide?
While it saved millions from starving, what is one big downside people talk about regarding the Green Revolution?
What is pollution?
What is the term for the disease that jumps from animals to humans, like Ebola or certain types of flu?
What is zoonotic disease?
What is the acronym for the type of “cocktail” therapy that finally made HIV manageable condition instead of a death sentence
What is Antiretroviral Therapy?
What is the name of the process where dry land turns into a desert because the trees and plants are gone?
What is desertification?
What do you call the massive sheets of ice that are melting and causing sea levels to rise?
What are glaciers?
What do we call the modern, high tech version of this where we actually change the DNA of the plants in a lab?
What are GMOs?