Water Works 🌊
This is the largest body of water on Earth and covers most of the planet's surface.
What is the ocean?
The material commonly found as litter in oceans,rivers, and on beaches.
What is Plastic ?
This renewable energy source uses sunlight to produce electricity.
What is solar energy?
The term for protecting natural resources so they remain available in the future?
What is Conservation ?
Tree's take in from the air that humans breathe out
What is Carbon Dioxide ?
This part of the water cycle occurs when water falls from clouds as rain,snow,sleet,or hail.
What is precipitation?
The commonly known phrase for the 3 R's
What is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle ?
These devices convert wind movement into electrical energy.
What are wind turbines?
The term for materials such as coal, oil, and natural gas that take millions of years to form.
What are Fossil Fuels ?
The process where trees and other plants use sunlight to make their own food
What is Photosynthesis ?
This underground source of freshwater can be accessed through wells.
What is groundwater?
Organic materials such as food scraps and leaves are broken down and turned into nutrient-rich material for soil.
What is Compost ?
This gas is released when fossil fuels are burned and contributes to climate change.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the name for animals that are at risk of disappearing forever.
What are endangered species?
A term for the forest having many different species of plants, insects, and mammals living together.
What is Biodiversity ?
This type of pollution occurs when harmful substances enters rivers, lakes, or oceans.
What is water pollution?
The environmental principle that ranks preventing waste above reusing, recycling, and disposing of it?
What is Waste Hierarchy ?
This renewable energy source uses the movement of water to generate electricity.
What is hydropower?
This natural event happens when tectonic plates suddenly move, causing the ground to shake.
What is an earthquake?
A forest that has been completely or mostly cleared of trees for agriculture, development, and other human activities .
What is Deforestation ?
This process uses plants, soil, and other natural systems to help remove pollutants from contaminated water.
What is phytoremediation?
The massive informal name for the swirling vortex of millions of tons of plastic waste trapped by ocean currents in California and Hawaii
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ?
This type of power plant uses heat from Earth's interior to generate electricity?
What is geothermal energy?
This the largest ecosystem on Earth and includes all of the planet's saltwater environments.
What is the marine ecosystems?
This giant South American rainforest produces 20% of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere.
What is the Amazon ?