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Ozone Depletion
Climate Change
Loss of Biodiversity
Sustainability
Who's Fault?
100
Ozone is a form of oxygen that is a human-made pollutant in the troposphere, but naturally produced and essential here.
What is the stratosphere?
100
Examples include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, clorofluorocarbons, and tropospheric ozone.
What are greenhouse gases?
100
Variation among organisms.
What is biodiversity?
100

Ways to reduce how much gasoline you use in a week.

Many

100

The main chemical compound in the atmosphere that is the source of ocean acidification.

What is carbon dioxide

200
The relatively high concentrations of ozone in the stratosphere form a layer that shields the surface from much of this type of radiation coming from the sun.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
200

Greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere are a result of human activities are causing this.

What is an enhanced/amplified greenhouse effect?

200
A species in imminent danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
What is an endangered species?
200

A personal action that can be taken in everyday life to reduce the amount of water used by you. 

Many Answers

200

The human activtiy/technology responsible for most CO2 emissions 

Burning Fossil Fuels

300
Used as propellants for aerosol cans, as coolants in air conditioners and refrigerators, as foam-blowing agents for insulation and packaging, and as solvents, this class of chemicals is linked to stratospheric ozone destruction.
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
300

The measure of reflectivity.

What is albedo?

300
Two reasons species are becoming endangered and extinct.
What are habitat loss, invasive species, population growth (human), pollution, over-harvesting, climate change?
300

What can the government do to encourage sustainable living?

What are education, legislation, and/or taxation?

300

A category of animals that have been brought to a new habitat where they dominate native species. 

What is an invasive species

400

Excessive exposure to UV radiation, including that due to the thinning ozone layer, is linked to several health problems in humans, including these two.

What are cataracts, skin cancer, and weakened immunity?

400

There are several indicators/signs across Earth of current increasing temperatures, including the following two.

What are increasing humidity, increasing temperatures over oceans, increasing sea surface temperatures, decreasing sea ice, increasing ocean heat content, increasing temperature of lower atmosphere, decreasing glaciers, increasing sea levels, decreasing snow cover, increasing temperatures over land?

400

These are two examples of ecosystem services.

What are lumber sources, watersheds/freshwater filtration and recharge, control the severity and number of floods, pollination by insects, soil development and maintenance, formation of oxygen?

400

A personal action that can be taken in everyday life to reduce the amount of carbon emissions produced.

Reduce the Carbon Footprint examples.

400

The protein source has the greatest environmental cost in land use, methane emissions, and CO2 emissions.

Beef (Cow)


500

The conference where countries came together to address Ozone Depletion and ban CFCs

What is the Montreal Protocol?

500

The 1996 meeting of the parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change at which highly developed countries agreed to establish legally binding timetables to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Note: The U.S. did not ratify this treaty.

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What is the Kyoto Protocol?

500
Somewhat controls the exploitation of endangered species at the international level.
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES)?
500

Excise taxes on environmental pollutants or on goods whose use produces pollutants.

What are green/carbon taxes?

500

Type of country/demographic transition stage that produces the most GHG emissions.

(Bonus shot if you give me the stage number)

Developed Country (Stage 4)