Climate Change
What is the main cause of climate change?
Human activity
What type of greenhouse gas is commonly expelled upon burning fossil fuels (e.i. coal, natural gas, and oil)?
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
What happens to species when the climate is drastically altered?
They decrease in population, struggle to survive, go extinct, etc.
Only about ___ percent of plastic is actually recycled, and it's usually done by other countries like China.
5-30%
What are the three R's to recycling? There's one that's planned to be added which is to "refuse" wasteful products.
Reduce, reuse, and recycle
Climate change, oftentimes noted as ____ ____, is the change of our climate (i.e. air circulation, weather, humidity). This doesn't just factor in temperature alone.
Global warming
What is the most potent greenhouse gas (it comes from cows)?
Methane (CH4)
What country has lost more than 90% of its biodiversity?
Brazil
Natural (not synthetic) rubber is made from latex which comes from what?
Rubber trees
What action is crucial for the United States to reduce its green house gas emissions?
Regulation of U.S. oil and gas production
What natural disaster, brought about more often from climate change, costs more than $20 billion in damages per event in the United States?
Hurricanes/typhoons
Damage to the ___ layer, the layer of greenhouse gases protecting our planet, leads to more ultraviolet radiation hitting the Earth's surface.
Ozone
___ is responsible for the 75% loss of natural habitats on Earth.
Agriculture
The production of plastics by 2050 is expected to ___ of what it was in 2015.
Double
What's the best way to reduce the emissions we create?
Changing our diet
What causes tropical storms to have more energy and intensify?
Warming oceans
Livestock are responsible for ___ percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
14-15%
Where or what location are we losing the most oxygen (O2) from?
The Antarctic
What industry (besides farming) is heavily dependent on the continuation of natural compounds to survive?
Pharmaceutical (medicine)
___ ____ is a Swedish environmental activist that has persuaded many individuals to change their lifestyle choices.
Greta Thunberg
By about how much has the Earth's global surface temperature increased over the past 100 years?
0.6 degrees Celsius (1.4 F)
How are green houses gases linked to global warming?
The green house gases get trapped in the atmosphere therefore making the temperatures rise
Land degradation from climate change has caused the biggest carbon sink. ___ holds more carbon down than the planet's biomass and atmosphere combined.
Soil
What is a Biodegradable alternative to plastic that can be used for up to five years before needing to be replaced?
Coconut Fiber
Plastics are being reused here in York into a product called RESIN8. It's being used as a readily prepared ___ mixture for Habitat for Humanity.
Concrete/asphalt