What a Disaster...
Name a natural disaster.
What is Tornado / Tsunami / Drought / etc...?
Cause of an earthquake.
What is shifting of tectonic plates?
This happens to natural resources as world population increases.
What is depletion or more natural resources are used?
The factor which does NOT lead to a higher PER CAPITA carbon emissions for a country.
Factories / Population / Cars / Farms
What is Population?
2 Ways to minimize a person's carbon footprint.
What are Carpool / Eat less Dairy and Meat / Walking more?
Natural hazard rainstorms and snowmelt cause in an area.
What are Flash Floods?
The unit of measurement of the intensity of an earthquake.
What is magnitude?
Another term for 'clean energy'.
What is Renewable, Green, or Sustainable Energy?
NOT a human impact on the biosphere...
Speciation / Overharvesting / Deforestation / Hunting
What is Speciation?
A carbon footprint measures this.
What is the amount of greenhouse gasses that are generated by humans?
Natural hazards that threaten dry areas, like the Southwestern US.
What is Wildfire or Heat Wave?
Reason why an area recently hit by a earthquake would likely be safe.
What is it takes time for more pressure to build to activate another earthquake?
Give 2 examples of a renewable resource.
What is Solar / Wind / Hydro - or - Sun / Wind / Water?
Region of the earth that are occupied by living organisms.
What is the biosphere?
The main reason overpopulation is leading to animal extinction.
What is habitat destruction?
Cause of a Tsunami.
What is an Earthquake?
The place where one tectonic plate goes under another tectonic plate.
What is the Subduction Zone?
Give 2 examples of a nonrenewable resource.
What are Fossil Fuels: Coal / Oil / Natural Gas
- Uranium / Metal Ores?
The major effect of global warming (increasing temperatures), it results in rising sea levels.
What is melting of the polar ice caps?
One legislative (legal) initiative to reduce our Carbon Footprint.
What is plastic ban, plastic or bag tax, emissions testing, etc?
Difference between a hurricane, cyclone, and a typhoon.
What is the location where they occur?
The scale used to express how strong an Earthquake is.
What is the Richter Scale?
The main natural resource of Antarctica.
What is Water?
Name a factor that contributes to a longer life and therefore overpopulation.
What are advances in: Agriculture / Medicine / Technology?
Meaning of PER CAPITA and how to calculate.
What is 'for each person', typically calculated with a total amount of something
divided by the total population?