National Parks
This national park built to commemorate westward expansion is the smallest park in the US
Gateway Arch
200 US households produce 292 million tons of this each year
Trash
In 1971, Dr. Seuss confronts environmental destruction with his character the Lorax, who says he does this, “for the trees have no tongues”
This word for a type of blood vessel is also used for a mineral filled fissure within rock
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, this U.S. airline was sued for falsely advertising itself as the first carbon-neutral airline.
Delta Air Lines
This national park located between the Great Basin and Mojave deserts is the largest park in the contiguous US, and contains the lowest point in North America.
Death Valley
This mid-ocean floating feature contains between 1.1 to 3.6 trillion pieces of plastic
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
This 2008 Pixar romantic science fiction film addresses consumerism, waste management, human environmental impact, and global catastrophic risk with a pair of loveable robots
Wall-E
This process is the weathering of particles as they're work away and moved by wind or water
Erosion
Many companies use this tactic to make false or misleading statements about the environmental benefits of their product or practice
Greenwashing
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was filmed in this national park adjacent to the Colorado River known for its unique geologic architecture
Arches
The US uses 1 million gallons of this every two minutes
Oil
The 1960s environmental movement made its debut in the world of comic books when DC released this character in 1966, eco-terrorist Batman antiheroine
Poison Ivy
This mineral often leaves polygon shaped designs due to water evaporation
Salt / Sodium Charlie
This company is a producer of plant-based meat alternatives that lost around 99.58% of its stock since 2021
Beyond Meat
This 2018 Paramount American neo-Western drama television series is set in the famous US National Park for which it is named.
Yellowstone
This country contains the most vegans
This 60s and 70s singer wrote the song “Big Yellow Taxi” expressing her concerns for the environment and that “they paved paradise and put up a parking lot”
Joni Mitchell
This kind of relative elevation map, partly from Greek for "place"
Topographical
Time Magazine ranked this renewable energy company as the world’s most sustainable company in 2024 and 2025.
Schneider Electric
Abraham Lincoln signed a grant in 1864 that declared this national park located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range containing features such as El Capitan as federally preserved land
Yosemite
Minamata disease neurological syndrome caused by this contaminant in Japan’s Minamata Bay from the Chisso Corporation from 1932 to 1968
Methylmercury
In this 2004 sci-fi/action film, Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal play paleoclimatologists investigating the shutdown of thermohaline circulation causing a new ice age in the US
The Day After Tomorrow
Millions of years ago, all of the continents were combined in a "super" one called this, Meaning "All Earth”
Pangea
This majority state-owned petroleum and natural gas company is the top polluting company in the entire planet, emitting more than 59.26 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco)