General knowledge
What is the topic of the day?
The environment / environmental problems
What is: The significant variation of average weather conditions becoming, for example, warmer, wetter, or drier—over several decades or longer.
Climate change
It produces large amounts of animal waste that pollutes our air with harmful gases, creates poor living conditions for people, harms the soil and surrounding water
TRUE / FALSE
False
What is: The introduction of harmful materials into the environment.
Pollution
What are some of the effects of climate change?
Extreme weather events, melting ice caps, and rising sea levels
What is the name of our planet?
Planet Earth
What is: Sites designed to store garbage.
Landfills
What is the ozone layer?
A layer in the atmosphere that protects the Earth from harmful radiation from the sun
What are some of the main issues the Earth is facing right now?
Pollution, climate change, factory farming, overfishing
What is: a type of intensive agriculture designed to maximize production while minimizing costs
Factory farming
What are some practices that can help our environment?
Promoting biodegradable products, recycling, more sustainable practices to farming and agriculture
Forests are being cleared for agriculture and urban development.
This loss of trees leads to a decrease in oxygen production and a loss of biodiversity.
What is: catching too many fish at once, so the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover
Overfishing
Why are landfills a problem?
It leads to soil and water contamination