Conservation
Definition- a careful preservation and protection of something. especially planned management of a natural resource.
What is conservation?
The First president to start conservation efforts in the United States (He liked to hunt).
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Ecological disaster that caused large dust clouds to displace farmers in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust bowl?
Who was the author of Silent Springs.
What is Rachel Carson?
After the dustbowl, Americans realized that we had to conserve this natural resource.
What is soil?
Went on a 5 day conservation tour to raise public awareness.
Who is John F Kennedy (JFK)?
This River caught on fire many times and is a partial cause for the first Earth Day.
What is The Cuyahoga River?
Who was the second great conservationist?
What is Franklin Delano Roosevelt? or FDR
What year was the first Earth day celebrated?
What is 1970?
This organization helps conserve/manage national parks.
What is the National Park Service(NPS)?
Created the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority to help conservation efforts during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
20 people died during this event - eventually leading to new air quality control policies.
What is Smog in Donora PA?
This decade saw environmental policy increases due to the Dust Bowl.
What is the 1930s?
Where did Dustbowl Refugees move to?
What is California?
During WWII, American Citizens were asked to conserve natural resources to do what?
What is help the war effort? (anything relating to helping the soldiers/war will count)
Padre Island, Cape Cod, and Point Reyes all have nationally protected spaces because of this president.
Who is JFK?
The overuse of DDT by the American public was brought to light by this person.
What is Rachel Carson?
What year did the Donora Smog happen?
What is 1948
JFK started his conservation tour at this person's estate - he was also the first chief Forester of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
Gifford Pinchot
A picture of what was placed on fliers all around the country when 20 million people took to the streets to protest environmental destruction in 1970.
What is Earth?
This president established the Environmental Protection agency(EPA).
What is Richard Nixon.
The city that a large oil spill happened in that helped cause the first Earth Day.
What is Santa Barbara?
What year did JFK go on his conservation tour?
What is the 1963?
You may look at the map - Can you name the 5 states MOST impacted by the Dust bowl? (The Yolk of the egg)
What is Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado?