Environmentalism
What year was the first Earth Day?
What is 1970?
Which of these things can be recycled?
- Plastic shopping bag
- Styrofoam to go box
- Used building materials
What is used building materials?
What does the IPCC stand for?
What is Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
True or False? Using reusable shopping bags exponentially decreases your carbon footprint.
They take 1,000-3,000 years to break down and humans consume and waste 500 a year!
How old is the earth?
What is 4.5 billion years?
What bestselling book warned the world of harmful pesticides?
What is Silent Spring by Rachel Carson?
What three things do you need to do before placing something into recycling bin?
What is empty, rinse, and dry?
Name 3 key greenhouse gases
What is Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, ozone, or nitrous oxide?
Sustainability concerns which period of time/group of people?
What is future generations?
What is the photosynthesis equation?
6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2
What is the greek word for the love of all things on earth?
What is Gaia?
Thrifting clothes is a form of recycling, true or false?
What is true?
It took 100 years for the Iceland glaciers to melt 25km, how many years did it take for the next 25km of glacier to melt?
What is 50 years?
(1970-2020)
Which household appliance is the biggest consumer of energy?
What is the refrigerator?
What is the Tragedy of The commons?
What is individuals selfishly abusing resources that they have open access to causing a depletion of the resource?
Who should be environmentalist?
What is Everyone?!?!
Which country has 6% of the world population and produces 50% of the worlds garbage?
What is the United States?
What is 7 inches?
How many trees does the average American consume through tree-products.
(Accept 5-9 trees as correct)
Which biome has the highest biodiversity?
What is tropical rainforest?
What is 30,000 acres a day?
What is the most recent and significant US Law that injects more than $370 billion into climate change and energy projects?
What is the Inflation Reduction Act?
What is the most efficiency form of energy production?
using less energy!
What is the most abundant element in the Earth's crust?
What is oxygen?