Envi Disasters
Name of the neighborhood that was built on a chemical dumping ground in Niagara Falls, New York.
What is Love Canal?
One form of energy that comes from solar power.
What is heat OR light?
The largest lizard on Earth that is native to an island in Indonesia.
What is the komodo dragon?
The biggest challenge to reducing carbon dioxide by filtering the air.
What is cost?
Book that kickstarted the modern environmental movement.
What is Silent Spring?
In 1983, the Environmental Protection Agency permanently relocated 500 residents from Times Beach in this Midwestern state because of widespread dioxin contamination.
What is Missouri?
A Japanese yachtman was the first person to cross this body of water with solar power only in 1996.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Name of the conservation society dedicated to birds.
What is the National Audubon Society?
The portion of sunlight reflected back into space.
What is albedo?
The first national park in the US.
What is Yellowstone?
In 1989, a ship hit a reef in the Prince William Sound and spilled more than 10 million gallons of crude oil. Name of the company that owned this ship.
What is Exxon?
Country with the largest solar farm in the world.
What is China?
A fungal disease known as "White Nose Syndrome" has decimated North American populations of this mammal.
What are bats?
One major strategy of geoengineering.
What is taking CO2 out of atmosphere OR solar radiation management?
Year the first Earth Day was celebrated in the US.
What is 1970?
The city where in the summer of 1969, a fire in which river brought more awareness to the environmental threat of pollution.
What is Cleveland?
Country that is one of per capita leaders of solar hot water systems.
What is Israel or Cyprus?
Term for an organism that gets heat from its environment (as opposed to one that creates heat for itself) - hint starts with an E.
What is ectotherm?
This limiting nutrient can be used to fertilize the ocean promote photosynthesis and remove CO2 from the air.
What is iron?
President who created the EPA.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The chemical that was a major release in a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
What is vinyl chloride?
Solar panels installed on the White House were eventually removed by this president.
Who is Ronald Reagan? >:(
The #1 most endangered animal at risk of extinction.
What is Java rhino?
Politician known for advocating geoengineering:
Marco Rubio, Newt Gringrich, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush
Who is Newt Gringrich?
The state where the first mandatory curbside pickup recycling program took place in 1980.
What is New Jersey?