Sustainability at UMD/in DC
The UMD office of sustainability logo.
What is a green turtle with a leaf on the shell?
This renewable energy source uses sunlight to generate electricity through photovoltaic cells.
What is solar energy?
The design of sustainable ecosystems that integrate human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both.
What is ecological engineering?
This term describes the physical, nonliving components of an ecosystem such as temperature, water, and soil.
What are abiotic factors?
This is one of our current ongoing projects at UMD AEES.
What is Green Mechanics or Rain Garden Restoration?
Name a building on campus that is LEED certified.
What are A. James Clark, HJ Patterson, Prince Frederick, ESJ, Commons 7, Knight, Oakland, Physical Sciences Complex, University House, Pokomoke, Chincoteague, Wye Oak, Thurgood Marshall, Yahentamitsi, Pyon-Chen, Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex, and Johnson-Whittle?
The most common form of energy production, combustion of which releases large amounts of CO2 and pollutants.
What is fossil fuels? (In the US it is petroleum, answer also accepted)
This type of paved surface allows water to pass straight through it, reducing runoff and promoting groundwater recharge.
What is permeable (or porous) pavement?
This ecological principle explains why predators are generally less abundant than the organisms they consume.
What is the energy pyramid (or trophic pyramid)?
This animal is the official animal of AEES.
What is a beaver?
The percentage of UMD’s campus that is permeable.
a) 15% b) 66% c) 74% d) 31%
What is 66%?
This renewable energy source comes from the heat stored beneath Earth’s surface.
What is geothermal energy?
This coastal defense structure uses oysters, mangroves, or other organisms instead of concrete seawalls to prevent erosion and provide habitat.
What is living shoreline?
This type of species has a disproportionately large effect on its ecosystem relative to its abundance.
What is a keystone species?
H.T. Odum introduced the term “ecological engineering” in this decade.
What is the 1960s?
Completed in 2003, this campus facility uses approximately 16% less fuel than typical electrical sources by capturing and reusing heat that would otherwise be wasted.
What is the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Plant?
List 3 greenhouse gases.
What is carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, ozone, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), etc.
Created by Bill MOllison and David Holmgren, this design philosophy closely mirrors ecological engineering by simulating natural ecosystem patterns to create sustainable agriculture.
What is permaculture?
This phenomenon describes the progressive accumulation of toxins in organisms higher up the food chain.
What is biomagnification?
This university is the only other university with a student chapter of AEES.
What is Ohio State?
UMD aims to divert at least this percentage of its total solid waste from landfills through recycling and composting programs.
What is 75%
An example of a material that can be used to make biomass energy.
What is organic materials like crop waste, wood, and animal manure?
The five steps of the wastewater treatment process. (Need 3 of them to get points)
What is coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection?
This hypothesis proposes that ecosystems with greater biodiversity are more resilient to environmental disturbances.
What is the diversity–stability hypothesis?
AEES was founded in this year.