This term refers to the small pieces of plastic less than 5 mm that often come from the breakdown of larger plastic items.
Microplastics
This workplace comedy was set at the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
The Office
This vitamin is synthesized by the skin when exposed to sunlight.
Vitamin D
This fruit is known for its high vitamin C content and is commonly used to make juice.
This Inuit leader made history in 2021 by becoming Canada's first Indigenous Governor General
Mary Simon
This plastic, commonly used in bottles, has the recycling code "1".
PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate)
This actor played Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s 2023 biopic.
Cillian Murphy
This organ is the largest in the human body by both weight and surface area.
Skin
This Canadian province is famous for its "Nanaimo bars".
British Columbia
This explorer is credited with claiming parts of Canada for France in the early 1600s.
Samuel de Champlain
This country was the first to completely ban single-use plastic bags back in 2002.
Bangladesh
This singer’s 2023 Eras Tour became the highest-grossing concert tour of all time.
Taylor Swift
This element is commonly associated with the Earth's core and is the heaviest naturally occurring element.
Iron
This term refers to the chemical process where yeast convers sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
This ancient city was buried under volcanic ash in 79 CE after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Pompeii
This U.S. state was the first to pass a law requiring all plastic bottles to be made from at least 25% recycled material.
California
This pop star shaved her head in 2007 during a widely publicized breakdown.
Britney Spears
This process is how water moves through a plant from the roots to the leaves.
Transpiration
This Greek dish features layers of eggplant, minced meat, and bechamel sauce bakes together.
Moussaka
This treaty, signed in 1919, officially ended World War 1.
The Treaty of Versailles
This emerging technology converts plastic waste into fuel or chemicals through heat in the absence of oxygen.
Pyrolysis
This YouTube creator became the most-subscribed individual channel.
MrBeast
This British scientist discovered the electron in 1897.
J.J. Thomson
This rare and expensive spice is harvested from the stigmas of a crocus flower.
Saffron
This African country was the only one never colonized during the European Scramble for Africa.
Ethiopia