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100

These are at least two of the sources of the greenhouse trapping effect that cause global warming

What are carbon dioxide and methane, fluorinated gasses?

100

The definition of pollution

What is a human made activity that harms health

100

What is now the cheapest form of electricity generation

What is Photovoltaic or solar panels?

100

By composting you can minimize this greenhouse gas

What is methane?

100

This famous Youtuber does stunts but also helped get 20 million trees planted by his followers.

Who is Mr. Beast?

100

This measurement expresses emissions from different gases in a single unit by converting them based on their relative warming impact, reported as kilograms of CO₂ equivalents.

What is kgCO₂e (carbon dioxide equivalent)?

200

This country emits the most greenhouse gas emissions PER PERSON 

The United States

200

When this secondary pollutant was reduced in 1996 in Atlanta during the winter Olympics, pediatric asthma admissions decreased by 40%, which was a result of a decrease in driving. 

What is ozone?

200

This device can both heat and cool your home and uses only electricity

What is a heat pump?

200

This accounts for more carbon equivalent emissions than commercial aviation

What is food waste? 

200

She and her brother Finneus minimize waste, serve plant-based food and offsets emissions at her concerts.

Who is Billie Eilish?

200

This category of emissions includes those generated indirectly from purchased goods and services, often making up the largest share of a hospital’s GHG footprint.

What are scope 3 emissions? 

300
Atmospheric rivers and other heavy rain events are increased in intensity due to climate change because of exacerbation of this normal climate cycle 

What is the hydrologic cycle?

300

This pollutant is often divided into two sizes which are measured in microns. 

What is particulate matter or PM pollution

300

Two of these statewide posts are coming up likely this year and regulate ⅔ of the electricity generation in Georgia. You can advocate for every one of the adults you know to participate in this election. 

What is the public service commission?

300

If everyone in the US ate 25% less beef, we could decrease GHG emissions by 1%, primarily by saving deforestation and eliminating this gas that is burped out by cows. 

What is methane

300

This policy was passed by the federal government last year and will get us about 40% decrease of our climate emissions, mainly through rebates for energy smart appliances and electric vehicles. 

What is the Inflation Reduction Act? 

300

This common stewardship strategy reduces both unnecessary care and associated emissions by avoiding tests that do not improve patient outcomes.

What is diagnostic stewardship?

Also could call this high value care when taking into account unnecessary treatments.  

400

The international goal to reach a state in which the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere are balanced by removal out of the atmosphere, and ideally decrease.

What is net zero or "drawdown"

400
Heat plus sunlight plus nitric oxides and volatile organic compounds make this substance

Ground level ozone

400

This group of actions is sometimes called "the most boring but impactful climate solution", and is useful in lower income homes; within a couple of days you could decrease greenhouse gas emissions and lower the person's energy bills.

What is energy efficiency measures or "weatherization"?

400

Regenerative agriculture is a climate solution because it allows more of this to be sequestered in the soil

Carbon (you can do this by less tilling, crop rotation, less fertilizer)

400

This movement popularized the "Green New Deal" and influenced the climate policies of the Biden administration

What is the sunrise movement?

400

True or False. Integrating an environmental lens into QI training increases likelihood of project completion

What is true? 
500

Per Yale Climate communications survey, 60% of Georgians report this. 

What is being worried about global warming?

500

You have likely been tested for this substance at some point in your life, but it causes far fewer problems now that it has been removed from paint and gasoline

What is lead?

500

Electric vehicles when compared to gas vehicles are sometimes said to be "zero emission", which refers to this type of emission. 

What is air pollution, such as particulate matter pollution. The carbon emissions vary with the type of electricity used to power the vehicle

500

This ocean based crop has a potential to sequester carbon, decrease methane emissions when added to livestock feed, and by restoring the normal pH of water.

What is seaweed?

500

Per Georgia Drawdown, we could eliminate a megaton of carbon emissions in GA if we recycled 20% of this type of waste

What is paper?

500

In the US, the GHG footprint from healthcare is higher than that of US aviation. 

What is true?