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This office is responsible for sustainable practices enacted throughout UTSA.
What is The Office of Sustainability?
This event was first created in 1970 and is in support of environmental protection.
What is Earth Day?
This gas is produced via the burning of fossil fuels and is a major contributor to global warming and ocean acidification.
What is Carbon Dioxide (CO2)?
This is the number of PRIMARY biomes.
What is five?
This is the percentage of freshwater on Earth.
What is 3%?
These two student organizations manage the campus community garden.
What is the Green Society and the Dietetic and Nutrition Student Association?
This U.S. agency was established in 1970 and enforces laws that protect components of the environment.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
Algal blooms in water due to excess nitrogen and phosphorous cause this phenomenon.
What is eutrophication?
This is the number of ecoregions in Texas.
What is 10?
The majority of Earth's freshwater is locked within these features.
What are glaciers, ice sheets, and permanent snow?
This is currently the longest running environmental science organization at UTSA having started in 2011.
What is the Green Society?
This event occurred on April 20, 2010 and resulted in 134 million gallons of oil being spilled and 1,300 miles of shoreline being polluted
What is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
Name 4 of the 6 criteria air pollutants.
What are carbon monoxide (CO), lead (Pb), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3), particulate matter (PM), and sulfur dioxide (SO2)?
This biome receive less than 25-50 cm of annual precipitation, has high evaporation rates, and many nocturnal animals.
What is the Desert?
This type of aquifer supplies 40% of U.S. drinking water but is extremely vulnerable to pollution due to lack of filtration
What is Karst?
This was the year UTSA's Community Garden first opened to the public.
What is Spring 2017?
This area was established in 1872, is considered to be the first national park in the world, and preserves over 2.2 million acres of land.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This emergent pollutant is long-lasting, found in the all aspects of the environment, and is not fully understood.
What are Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAs)?
This is the largest terrestrial biome on Earth that covers 10-27 percent of land and spans across the upper Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Taiga/Boreal Forest?
This is the type of feedback loop that the water cycle is.
What is a positive feedback loop? (Water vapor in the atmosphere leads to warming temperatures which leads to more evaporation and enables the atmosphere to hold more water.)
In 2016 UTSA dedicated over 6 acres to be maintained for this species habitat.
What is the Monarch Butterfly?
This book exposed the dangers of DDT and is credited to have launched the modern global environmental movement.
What is "Silent Spring" (Carson, 1962)?
This type of pollution is emitted as a gas from common household items and is contributor to ground-level ozone/smog and indoor air pollution.
What are volatile organic compounds (VOCs)?
This biome houses over half of the world's plant and animal species yet has nutrient-poor soil.
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
This is the density-driven ocean conveyor belt that is powered by both temperature and salinity difference.
What is Thermohaline Circulation?