Geography
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
The largest ocean on earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
This farming method, which reduces the need for chemical pesticides and fertilizers, promotes soil health and biodiversity by rotating crops and using natural pest control.
What is regenerative or organic farming?
This source of energy, often harnessed through solar panels or wind turbines, is considered one of the most sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels.
What is renewable energy?
The continent home to the Amazon Rainforest.
What is South America?
This US State is made entirely of islands.
What is Hawaii?
The state of Hawaii officially recognizes only 137 islands in the state. An island in this sense may also include much smaller and typically uninhabited islets, rocks, coral reefs, and atolls.
Human activity that is the biggest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions.
What is burning fossil fuels? (coal, petroleum/oil and natural gas).
These legally protected areas, ranging from national parks to wildlife reserves, are set aside to conserve ecosystems and prevent habitat destruction.
How can we conserve biodiversity and watersheds?
This method of capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it underground is being explored as a solution to reduce the effects of climate change
What is carbon capture and storage?
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world and is part of this mountain range.
What is the Himalayas?
The Atlantic Ocean separates North America from this continent.
What is the European Continent?
Give an example of a climate change related disaster.
What are the wildfires in Los Angeles or tornados and floods in Kentucky over the weekend? TBD by me
This source of energy, often harnessed through solar panels or wind turbines, is considered one of the most sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels.
What is renewable energy (that doesn't contribute to global warming)?
This farming practice involves reducing the use of chemical fertilizers, promoting soil health, and sequestering carbon to minimize agriculture's carbon footprint.
What is the alternative to industrial agriculture or regenerative agriculture?
This desert, the largest hot desert in the world, covers much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This body of water separates Europe and Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The process when heat from the sun is trapped in Earth's atmosphere by greenhouse gases.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer and helps protect Earth from harmful UV rays.
What is the stratosphere?
Young people like Greta Thunberg and millions from across the world come together to demand a livable planet.
What is civic engagement or participation for the public good? (in the organization Sunrise and forming alliances across the world). September 2019 more than 20 million people demanded climate action from their leaders.
The name of the deepest part of the ocean off the coast of Peru.
What is the Mariana Trench?
The Southern Ocean surrounds this continent
What is Antartica?
This polar region is experiencing the most rapid ice melt due to global warming.
What is the Arctic?
3 examples of non-fossil fuel energy.
What are wind, solar, geothermal energy?
This international agreement, signed in 2015, aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C and encourages countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
What is the United Nation's Paris Climate agreement when leaders from 196 countries agreed to decarbonize Earth? (bonus points if you can answer what year it was signed)