Climate Crisis
These are long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns.
What is climate change?
This material takes 450 years to breakdown.
What is plastic?
This fruit is named after its color.
What is orange?
Instead of using a car, doing this to school or nearby places can reduce air pollution.
What is walking/biking?
This striped insect is responsible for pollinating one-third of the food we eat.
What is a bee?
Melting ice caps lead to this dangeous event.
What is sea level rise?
These tiny bits of plastic pollute oceans and enter the food chain.
What are microplastics?
These seven colors consist of what we know as the Rainbow.
What is red, oranage, yellow, green, blue, indigo, & violet?
Bringing one of these to the store reduces the need for single-use plastic bags.
What is a reusable bag?
These flying mammals help control insect populations and are vital for plant pollination.
What is a bat?
This is the term for people forced to leave their homes due to environmental disasters.
What is climate reguees?
The gas produced by rotting food in landfills, which contributes to climate change.
What is methane?
This fruit gets its name from its bright yellow color and is known for its sour taste and high vitamin C.
What is a lemon?
Starting one of these at home or school can reduce food waste and help gardens grow.
What is a compost bin?
These tiny organisms break down waste and dead material, returning nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
This source/form of energy, produced by burning fossil fuels, is a major source of greenhouse gases.
What is coal (or fossil fuel energy)?
This waste consists of waste coming from a technological stand-point.
What is E-Waste?
This color warns predators that a creature (or mushroom) might be poisonous. Think of dart frogs or fly agaric mushrooms.
What is red?
Unplugging devices when they’re not in use saves this invisible but important resource.
What is electricity?
This marine animal is responsible for producing a significant amount of sand as a byproduct.
What is a parrot fish?
This term refers to the average global temperature increasing over time.
What is global warming?
Trash that ends up in the ocean can create massive floating patches like this one in the Pacific.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
This mineral, once used to create ultramarine paint for Renaissance art, comes from a blue stone that is well-known to gamers.
What is lapis lazuli?
Turning this off while brushing your teeth can save gallons of water a day.
What is the faucet/tap?
This oceanic organism, often mistaken for a plant, produces over 50% of the Earth’s oxygen through photosynthesis.
What is algea?