Islam and the Environment
True or False: Muslims can use as much water as they want when making Wudu because that helps purify them better.
Name two effects that climate change has on our environment.
What is glaciers and ice sheets are shrinking, river and lake ice is breaking up earlier, plant and animal geographic ranges are shifting, and plants and trees are blooming
Power harvested from sunlight often through photovoltaic panels and converted into electricity
What is solar power.
Chemical equation for water
What is H2O
Primary gas released into the atmosphere from industrial and automotive emissions responsible for global warming
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)
What did the Prophet (saw) teach us about proper etiquette in the use of water when making Wudu?
Name a way you can prevent pollution
What is use natural cleaning solutions reduce, reuse, recycle plant a tree
Non-renewable resources derived from dead organic material (i.e. plants and dinosaurs) that has been compressed over thousands of years and extracted for energy consumption.
What are fossil fuels. (Oil, coal, natural gas)
Name two ways you can help conserve water
What is take shorter showers, turn water off while brushing teeth, limit amount of water used for watering lawns and gardens.
Grab your inhaler! This chronic lung disease affects more than 25 million Americans is the result of air pollution such as particulate matter, pollen, and ground level ozone.
What is asthma
What should someone do if they had a sapling in their hand on the day of resurrection?
What is plant it.
“Even if the Resurrection were established upon one of you while he has in his hand a sapling, let him plant it.”
Although these chemicals promote plant growth on farms, gardens, and golf courses they become extremely harmful when they enter the atmosphere and waterways.
What are fertilizers or pesticides
This energy source became even more controversial after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan. Power is produced by splitting uranium atoms through a process called fission that produces heat which creates steam used to power a turbine.
What is nuclear power.
The continuous circulation of water as it evaporates from the land and sea, enters the atmosphere, condenses and precipitates to the earth's surface, then moves underground by infiltration.
What is the water cycle.
The atmospheric layer where UV radiation from the sun is absorbed.
What is the ozone layer (located in the Stratosphere).
How is it a test from Allah (swt) to have the blessings that the earth provides us?
What is "this is a blessing from Allah that we have to take care of and so Allah will ask us about it"
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emitted from industries and cars combine with precipitation in the atmosphere to form this.
What is acid rain
The 4th largest country in the world that consumes the most energy per capita.
What is China
An area of land where any groundwater underneath of it or precipitation that falls on it drains into one river, basin, or sea.
What is a watershed
Name two natural processes that emit pollution into the air.
What are volcanoes and forest fires.
What are 3 things that the prophet (saw) taught us about caring for the environment?
Conserve our resources as much as possible.
Practise sustainable consumption whenever possible.
Plant trees as a means of good deeds
Term used to describe cities that have consistently higher temperatures than surrounding areas because of a greater retention of heat from buildings, concrete, and asphalt.
What is the heat island effect
This dam produces enough hydroelectric power to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, California, and Arizona
What is the Hoover Dam
Federal law passed in 1972 that placed limits on the amounts of toxic chemicals that can be discharged into a body of water. Provisions to this act include the Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the establishment of a superfund, or CERCLA.
What is the Clean Water Act
Organic compound responsible for ozone depletion commonly used in refrigerants, aerosols, and solvents that has been restricted under the Montreal Protocol
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)