Climate Change
This is the term for the shift in the Earth's long-term temperatures and weather patterns.
What is climate change?
Plastic is expected to outweigh all the ____ in the sea by 2050.
What is fish?
The book in the Bible in which God creates the earth.
What is Genesis?
True or false? Floods and droughts brought on by climate change make it harder to grow food and threaten the world’s food supply.
True
When large amounts of trees are removed.
What is deforestation?
The way in which certain gases in the Earth's atmosphere trap heat
What is the greenhouse effect?
This is increasingly common due to warmer, drier weather in the western US and Canada, and it's the main cause of recent summer air quality warnings in Wisconsin.
What is wildfire smoke?
The two greatest commandments, according to Jesus in the Gospel of Mattew.
What are love God and love your neighbor as yourself?
True or false? There is no relationship between climate change and armed conflict.
False; climate change increases the likelihood of competition and violent conflict over resources.
True or false? Nature plays a major role in regulating the climate by storing carbon dioxide.
True
Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide
What are three greenhouse gases?
Just two data centers for this type of text, image, and video generation and analysis could use more energy than all Wisconsin households combined.
What is AI?
Being ______ means protecting unborn babies and the dignity of all people, including their access to clean air and water.
What is pro-life?
True or false? The World Bank estimates that an additional 44 million people will live in poverty by 2030 due to health impacts of climate change?
True
This type of habitat is important because it filters water, controls floods, and is home to a variety of wildlife.
What is wetlands?
The term for the amount of carbon (in the form of greenhouse gases) that you release into the atmosphere from your everyday activities.
What is a carbon footprint?
True or false? Per capita energy-related CO2 emissions decreased in every state between 2005 and 2023.
True. This is primarily because less coal was burned. However, the US emitted about 30,800 pounds of CO2-equivalents per capita in 2023!
This category of Church teaching has 7 principles, including care for God's creation.
What is Catholic social teaching?
1.4 billion Catholics
What is the number of Catholics worldwide?
A category of food that uses no artificial fertilizers or pesticides, and generally is healthier for the environment, farmers, and often consumers.
What is organic?
This greenhouse gas is produced in large part by cows.
What is methane?
The nutrient responsible for creating algae blooms in area lakes, coming primarily from agricultural fertilizer, but also urban sources like leaf litter.
What is phosphorus?
Author of Laudato Si': On Care for our Common Home
Who is Pope Francis?
Increases in heat stroke, respiratory illness, infectious diseases, malnutrition, allergies, and cardiovascular disease are examples of this.
What are human-health impacts of climate change?
Millions of _____ migrate through Wisconsin every spring and fall, navigating by stars.
What is birds?