GHG
Lets sunlight through to the earth's surface while trapping "outbound" radiation.
What is the Greenhouse Effect
Country that emits the most carbon dioxide per person?
What is the United States?
Environmental justice advocates have shown that people of color and low-income individuals are more likely to live near pollution sources that are bad for their health compared to White or high-income people. T or F
What is True?
These colors "A," "B," "C," and "D" represent in the HOLC grading system.
What is how 'safe' it was to award a federally-backed loan in a given area. "A" is the best grade, and "D" is the hazardous grade?
Anniversary year CSA is celebrating this Wednesday 8/2/2023.
What is 20th?
Earth's average temperature below 32 degrees F
Without the greenhouse effect, what would the average temperature on Earth be?
Country that produces the most carbon dioxide in total each year.
What is China?
Particles with a diameter smaller than this many microns are of particular concern because they can penetrate deep into the lungs and cause health issues.
What is 2.5?
Some of the racist and classist assumptions used by HOLC appraisers to assign grades to neighborhoods. (name two)
What are areas with higher populations of people of color, working-class residents, and immigrants?
Because of this, we have seasons.
What is the Earth's tilt?
Electromagnetic rays from the sun that heat the planet
What are infrared rays?
True or False: Wood is a fossil fuel.
What is False?
Source that arsenic (As) contamination in water originate. (Name one)
What is mining, coal-fired power plants, lumber facilities, electronics industry, foundry activities, or agriculture?
A practice where speculators bought properties in all-White or predominantly White neighborhoods and rented or sold them to Black residents at above-market prices. This practice sparked fear among White neighbors, leading them to leave the neighborhood and sell their homes at below-market value, further segregating communities.
What is "Blockbusting"?
True of false, natural gas is a fossil fuel.
What is true?
Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere this many years after being released.
Carbon dioxide levels like during the last Ice Age.
What are much lower than today?
These two methods/actions can contribute to soil contamination with mercury (Hg). (need two)
What are mining, incineration of coal, alkali, and metal processing?
Contracts that forbade the sale or lease of a property to non-White people. They were outlawed in Massachusetts with the passing of the 1946 Massachusetts Fair Housing Law.
What were "race-based restrictive covenants"?
Level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere 200 years ago? (before the Industrial Revolution)
What was 275 ppm (plus or minus 20 ppm, must have ppm as a unit)
Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, water, and nitrous oxide, is not a GHG.
What is carbon monoxide?
Three ways that climate change is affecting the oceans.
What are: sea ice is melting; coral reefs dying; and ocean water becoming more acidic.
Two potential solutions or approaches to promoting "tree equity" in Boston and ensuring equal access to health-promoting green spaces and tree cover for all residents. (need two)
What are 1) implementing urban forestry and tree planting programs in underserved neighborhoods, 2) advocating for equitable distribution of parks and green spaces, and 3) engaging with community organizations like Speak for the Trees
This 2020 report found that housing discrimination based on voucher status occurred in _______ of tests, and racial disparities were stark, with Black testers facing significantly lower rates of setting up apartment viewings compared to White testers.
What is 86%? (plus or minus 5%)
Current global level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today.
What is 420 ppm (must have units and plus or minus 15 ppm)