Climate Change
Most notable greenhouse gas
What is CO2?
"A deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time (usually a season or more), resulting in a water shortage.”
What is a drought?
The long-term shifts in global temperature and weather, largely driven by anthropogenic factors.
What is climate change?
Weather pattern that leads to warm, moist air in the Eastern Pacific, potentially leading to increased precipitation and drought amelioration.
What is El Niño?
City most directly affected by the droughts
What is Los Angeles?
Greenhouse gas emitted most notably by the agriculture sector
What is methane?
Natural disasters exacerbated and made more frequent by droughts.
What are wildfires?
A weather event that kicks up large quantities of dirt, sand, and other debris.
What is a dust storm?
Renewable energy that uses photovoltaic cells to generate energy.
What is solar energy/power?
California agency tasked with addressing the drought.
What is the California State Water Resources Control Board?
How climate change has affected global weather patterns.
What is exacerbated them?
Effect that leads to the leeward side of a mountain to be drier than normal
What is the rain shadow effect?
The recent wildfire that blazed through Southern California in 2025.
What is the Palisades Fire?
Process where salt is removed from seawater to produce potable water.
What is desalination?
The government agency that regulates environmental regulations.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
Country that emits the most CO2
What is China?
Where the precipitation (snow) that provides water to Southern California accumulates.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Sierra Nevada also accepted.
Disease exacerbated by the California droughts.
What is valley fever?
Process that injects water and chemicals into the ground; it can waste water and pollute underground aquifers.
What is fracking?
Government agency that works to monitor the weather, climate, ocean, Lakes, and natural resources; their work reaches from "the surface of the sun (sky) to the depths of the ocean floor (sea)."
What is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)?
National Weather Service (NWS) also accepted.
International Treaty on climate change.
What is the Paris Agreement (2015)?
Economic sector most directly hit by droughts, resulting in decreased production.
What is Agriculture?
The main source of water for Southern California (LA)
What is Lake Mead?
Replaces traditional sprinklers by delivering water directly to plant roots, drastically cutting down waste.
What is drip irrigation?
Federal Agency that manages Lake Mead (including water levels, flow, and allocations).
What is the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation?