Historical events
Government
Water
Misc.
Energy
100
This law helped reform Firefighting regulations
What is Weeks Law?
100
The initials of this organization are EPA
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
100
The amount of water that is available for human consumption?
What is 1%?
100
classification of resources that are alive or were once living.
What is biotic?
100
the two types of energy America uses most
What is electricity and fossil fuels?
200
This event happened from 1931-1939
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
The initials of this organization are NRCS
What is the Natural Resources Conservation Service?
200
The location of the other 99% of water
What is glaciers, ice caps, rivers, bodies of water, underground, atmosphere, pollution?
200
2 examples would be iron and salt
What are abiotic resources?
200
Two indirect energies for fossil fuel
What is transportation (trains and trucks), processing plants, oil pumps, gas stations?
300
This event destroyed the midwest during the 1950s
What is The Great Flood?
300
3 of the goals for the NRCS.
What is provide education, help farmers make money, protect wildlife, protect soil, protect air, protect water, or conduct research?
300
The three main water uses 300 years ago
What is agriculture, humans, and transportation?
300
the three states lost the most agricultural land
What is california, texas, and florida?
300
2 direct energies for fossil fuels
What driving cars, pumping gas, using engine powered equipment, propane equipment.
400
This organization was founded during the Dust Bowl to help conserve soil
What is the SCS?
400
4 of the roles of government in natural resource management.
What is financial support, provide education, create laws, create parks, and create agencies.
400
2 ways to lessen our water use at home
What is shorter showers, lawn care, turn faucets off, etc.?
400
means to "fix up or make better"
What is conservation?
400
2 indirect energies of electricity
What is building dams, wind generators, solar panels, power plants, power lines, transformers, linemen, etc.
500
The three events that happened with the Weeks Law of 1911
What is bought water lands, created national parks, and reformed firefighting?
500
The amount of land that the government bought from the Weeks Law
What is 6 million acres?
500
BONUS: the amount of our planet that is made up of water
What is 70%?
500
means to use up for our own gain
What is exploitation?
500
2 direct energies for electricity
What is outlets, switches, lights, etc.
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