Env. Science
• 1. Measure of an individual's impact on the environment by calculating Greenhouse gas emissions from their lifestyle (i.e. consumption and transportation)
What is Carbon Footprint
Created the movement “Fridays for the Future” and wrote “The Climate Book”
Who is Greta Thunberg
Name the Movie: The last robot on earth that spends his days picking up trash.
What is Wall-E
What does the EPA stand for?
What is the Environmental Protection Agency
Officer who has a pet cat named BUG.
Who is Ashtyn
What are Chlorofluorocarbons
Who is the (British) voice behind “Planet Earth”, “The Blue Planet”, and numerous other nature documentaries.
Sir David Attenbrough
Name the movie: Orange mustached creature that is summoned when a tree is cut down
What is the Lorax
Act established in 1972 that regulates pollution discharged into US waterways.
What is the Clean Water Act
Officer who will be studying abroad this spring in AUSTRALIA
Who is Brooke
Term used to describe cities that have consistently higher temperatures than surrounding areas because of a greater retention of heat from buildings, concrete, and asphalt.
What is Heat Island Effect
Environmentalist most know for her 55-year study of chimpanzees in Tanzania
Who is Jane Goodall
Name the movie: Movie with blue human creatures that fight to protect their sacred land.
What is Avatar
Passed in 1973, this act works to protect endangered species and protect habitat
What is the Endangered Species Act
Officer who nearly BLEW UP the camping stove on a SFS camping trip.
Who is Jenna W
What are Fossil Fuels
Woman in STEM from Pittsburgh that wrote the book titled “Silent Spring”
Who is Rachel Carson?
Theory developed by Garrett Hardin that shared common resources are more likely to be overused and degraded when individuals act to fulfill their own short-term self interests over the interests of the group.
What is Tragedy of the Commons
Act that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources that was passed in 1970
What is the Clean Air Act
There is a CANADIAN in the room. Who is it?
Who is Jenna Post
The continuous circulation of water as it evaporates from the land and sea, enters the atmosphere, condenses and precipitates to the earth's surface, then moves underground by infiltration.
What is the Water cycle
Professor who received her PhD in Env Science from Paris, France and teaches classes in sustainable energy and food systems.
Who is Dr. Soizik Laguette
What species of porpoise is nearly extinct with only around 10 individuals?
What is the Vaquita
International treaty addressing climate change that was adopted by 195 countries at the UN Climate Change Conference
What is the Paris Agreement
Who chose NOT to give me a fun fact about themselves, but is still a fun person...