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This is a book written by Rachel Carson dealing with environmental issues of pesticides.
What is Silent Spring?
100
This is the nation that saw over one million deaths by starvation due to civil war in the late 1980s.
What is Sudan?
100
This country along with the United States, Russia, China, and United Kingdom are permanent members of the UN.
What is France?
100
This is the term given to the development of new strains of grains that have higher yields.
What is the Green Revolution?
100
This is the country where a judge said it was legal to slap your wife is she "spends lavishly"?
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
This is a mixture of sulfur produced by factories with moisture in the air.
What is Acid Rain?
200
This is the name of the ship that was involved in a major oil spill in Alaska.
What is the Exxon Valdez?
200
He was the U.S. president involved in the founding of the United Nations.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
200
He was the first man on the moon.
Who is Niel Armstrong?
200
This country is currently under suspicion for producing plutonium for atomic weapons.
What is North Korea?
300
This is the FULL name given to gases used in aerosol cans and refrigeration equipment.
What are Chlorofluorocarbons?
300
This city in the Ukraine saw a nuclear explosion in 1986 that killed hundreds of people.
What is Chernobyl?
300
The United Nations was founded in 1945 in this city.
What is San Francisco?
300
This is the date of the first day of school for the 2009-2010 school year.
What is August 13th, 2009?
300
This is the name given to cell phones that are environmentally safe.
What are "green" phones?
400
This is the gas responsible for the greenhouse effect.
What is carbon dioxide?
400
This is the city where the Earth Summit was held in 1992.
What is Rio de Janeiro?
400
According to estimates by the United Nations, the world's population could reach this number by the year 2050.
What is 9 billion?
400
She is an American educator active in encouraging existence of nongovernmental organizations.
Who is Elise Boulding?
400
He is Barack Obama's Vice President.
Who is Joe Biden?
500
This is the study of human/environment interaction.
What is Ecology?
500
This year was the moon landings of Apollo 11.
What is 1969?
500
Military mission in this nation led to questions about the effectiveness of United Nations peacekeeping forces.
What is Somalia?
500
She is the author of the book Creating Alternative Futures.
Who is Hazel Henderson?
500
These two cities are in the Western Conference Finals of the NBA Championship.
What is LA and Denver?