Environmental Literature
What is the difference between a dystopia and utopia?
What is dystopia depicts societies with great suffering and injustice, while utopias depict societies where everything is perfect, including social and economic conditions?
What did Romantic writers get inspiration from?
What is sublime imagery of the natural world?
Who made the first national park, and has a trail in California named after him?
Who is John Muir?
What does the original environmental justice movement address (1960s)?
What is the inequity of environmental protection in their communities?
Where does Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon take place? (Bonus 100 for city as well as country)
Where is Lagos, Nigeria?
What two literary devices do both utopias and dystopias use to critique? (100 for each)
What are irony and satire?
Who are the two most famous Transcendentalists? (100 for each)
Who are Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Who wrote Silent Springs and what was it about? (100 for each)
Who is Rachael Carson? What is DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)?
Where does Octavia E. Butler's Parable the Sower take place?
Where is California?
What is the Anthropocene?
What is the earth's period of significant human impact (First human impact to present)?
What is Environmental Literature?
What is a genre of writing that comments on environmental themes, the relationship between nature and culture?
What was Henry David Thoreau's Walden about?
What is simple living away from society and the city?
What did Aldo Leopold make/do? (100 for Each)
1. Wrote "The Land Ethic"
2. Introduced concept of Land Pyramid
3. Advocated for soil, waters, plants, and animals.
4. Wrote A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
What event helped progress the environment justice movement?
What is the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968?
What topic does Stephanie LeMenager write about?
What is petroculture?
What famous text is considered one of the first environmental literature?
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
What four movements inspired American Transcendentalists? (100 for each)
What is, Unitarianism, German transcendentalists, English Romantics, and Plato's philosophies?
What part of Silent Springs made the book so influential?
What is a hyperbolic preface, in which a world is imagined without birds, insects or animal life, where vegetation has withered and people have become sick because of the use of chemical spray?
What did Vandana Shiva protest against in her writing?
What are Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)?
Who came up with the phrase Cli-Fi?
Who is Dan Bloom?
What are five environmental utopias? (100 Each)
List:
H.G. Well's The Time Machine
Ernest Callanbach's Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston
Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
Becky Chambers's A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Nnedi Okorafor's Zahrah the Windseeker
What are the names of five Romantic poets? (100 for each)
Who are, William Blake, William Woodsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley?
What science fiction book series about climate change did Ursla K. Le Guin write in the 60s?
What is "The New Atlantis"?
What was NECAG and what was against? (250 for each)
What is the Northeast Community Action Group (NECAG)?
What is they fought against placing a landfill within 1,500 feet of a local public school in North Carolina?
What is the metaphor in Barabara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior that helps the readers access information about the environment?
What is a monarch butterfly?