Carbon Footprint
Pollution
Engineering
100

The gradual increase in Earth's average surface temperature, due to human activities.

What is Global Warming?
100

The introduction of harmful materials into the environment.

What is Pollution?

100

People who design systems that manage and protect the environment, by reducing waste and pollution.

What are Environmental Engineers?

200

Special gases that trap heat from the sun in our atmosphere.

What are Greenhouse Gases?

200

Large collections of debris around the world.

What are Garbage Patches?

200

Doing something in a smart and quick way to get the job done well.

What is Efficient?

300

The amount of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, that are released into the air because of the things we do.

What is Carbon Footprint?

300

The journey that plastics and microplastics go through from being made, used, disposed of, and sometimes recycled to be used again.

What is The Plastic Cycle?

300

A floating bin that catches any trash that comes near it.

What is the Seabin?

400

The gradual change in weather patterns and temperatures because of things people do.

What is Climate Change?

400

Man-made plastics made out of chemicals that come from fossil fuels.

What are Synthetic Plastics?

400

A U-shaped flexible line that traps plastics into a huge net.

What is System 002?

500

Emissions, electricity, transport, offsets, waste, recycling, gas, and fuel.

What are Contributors to our Carbon Footprint?

500

The maximum amount of years for microplastics to decompose.

What is 1,000 Years?

500

Ask, research, imagine, plan, create, test, and improve.

What is the Engineering Design Process?

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