Plants and Animals
Saskatchewan Landforms and Geography
Climate Change
SEI Environment
Fruit Basket
100
This iconic prairie grass has two varieties: similar to the dipper constellations!
What are Big and Little Blue Stem?
100
This Saskatchewan area is Canada’s largest saline lake.
What are the Quill Lakes? (let’s be real, it’s really just one big lake now)
100
Canada committed to this 2015 Paris Accord emissions reduction goal.
What is GHG reduction of 30% below 2005 levels by 2030?
100
Dan Dietrich’s favourite type of meat (Dan, you're not allowed to answer).
What is Beef?
100
_________is a long word. Can you spell it?
What is I.T. (Get it? Can you spell “it”?)
200
This large predatory animal was killed by police in Moose Jaw this year.
What is a cougar?
200
This process is causing the trees in this picture from one of our distribution right-of-ways to appear rather drunk!
What is a landslide?
200
Although there is widespread agreement among economists that it is the most efficient and effective way to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, this economic tool continues to be stubbornly rejected by the Saskatchewan government.
What is a carbon tax?
200
Currently, this is the leading cause of attrition in SaskEnergy’s Environment group.
Where is British Columbia?
200
This Saskatchewan town once boasted its very own giant and strongman, Edouard Beaupre?
What is Willow Bunch?
300
The common name of this native Saskatchewan plant is slightly less impressive than its height or its Latin name of Heracleum Maximum (it also happens to be the only Latin plant name I can ever recall).
What is Cow Parsnip?
300
Although the hiking trail atop this high ridge in Narrow Hills Provincial Park is called the Esker Trail, the landform is actually an example of this.
What is a push moraine?
300
In a July 9th, 2020 news release in Geneva, the Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update concluded that we have already experienced this annual mean global temperature increase above pre-industrial levels.
What is 1 degree Celsius?
300
This 2018 innergy article profiled an employee's sewing abilities, and quickly became the most "liked" story of the year
What is "Life Seams Better When Sewing" (will accept Jeanniene sewing article)
300
This Greek-style sandwich comprised of beef or chicken souvlaki with onions and tomatoes on a torpedo bun was actually invented in Saskatchewan.
What is a Frajolaki sandwich?
400
This grass was used during trials at one of SaskEnergy’s salt-contaminated sites to help with soil remediation.
What is Crested Wheat Grass?
400
Other than the Canadian Shield and the Cypress Hills, this Saskatchewan region was not affected by the last glaciation
Where are the Wood Mountain Uplands?
(near Rockglen, SK)
400
In a 2018 document titled “Prairie Resilience Is Not Enough,” this organization made the case that the Government of Saskatchewan’s climate change plan falls well short of our fair share of greenhouse gas emission reductions.
What is the Saskatchewan Environmental Society?
400
This contaminated TransGas site was the subject of much study, remediation, and even a master’s thesis. I guess the eventual solution was one way of dealing with it…
What is Coleville Compressor Station
400
Sometimes words in other romantic languages sound like English. This English translation of the Spanish word “Zanahoria” is not one of them.
What is “Carrot”
500
The Montreal band with the same name as this category title played this musical venue in Regina in 2009.
What is the Regina Folk Fest?
500
While it has gotten a face-lift in recent years, this accommodation was one to be avoided at all costs when completing SaskEnergy’s groundwater monitoring program in the Kindersley area.
What is The Crossroads Motel
(when I stayed there once, there was someone else in my room watching TV, and my light switch was a circuit breaker)
500
This world-class climate researcher uses tree rings to understand past and future climates right here in Saskatchewan. He or she also gave a Green Screen presentation at SaskEnergy Place.
Who is Dave Sauchyn?
500
This 1988 reclamation recommendation is from a particular SaskEnergy project in this environmentally-sensitive area.
Where are the Great Sand Hills?
500
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
What is African or European?