Water
Water is composed of these two elements.
What is Oxygen and Hydrogen? 2 Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen = H20
The process where plants use sunlight to make food from carbon dioxide and water generating oxygen as a byproduct.
What is Photosynthesis?
The warming effect that takes place on Earth caused by greenhouses trapped in the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse gas effect?
The first Earth Day.
What is April 22, 1970?
The elimination of all the individuals of a particular time. This is the death of a species that is a natural and common event in biological evolution.
What is extinction?
The percentage of Earth that is saltwater.
What is 97%?
A very dry, barren region with little rain and vegetation and a very warm climate.
What is a desert?
Two gases that are the most prominent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide and methane?
The agency that protects people and the environment from significant health risks, sponsors and conducts research, and develops and enforces environmental regulations.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
The nonliving things that influence an organism.
What are abiotic factors?
Washing clothes at this temperature will save energy.
What is cold?
This shows the continuous movement of water with the Earth and atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
The consequence of climate change that happens because warm water expands and melting glaciers add to ocean volume.
What is sea level rise?
The person know as the most environmental president because under his presidency the EPA was formed along with the Clean Air Act, Water Pollution Control Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
Who is President Nixon?
The main function of roots on a plant.
What is helps the plant absorb water and minerals?
This is the percentage of available, drinkable freshwater available on Earth right now.
What is 1%? There is 3% of available freshwater on Earth, but 2% is locked up in ice and glaciers.
An English naturalist known for his theory of natural selection which became the foundation of evolutionary studies.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The cause for the rapid increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and global warming, according to most scientists.
What are humans?
The book written in 1962 by Rachel Carson that influenced the environmental movement.
What is Silent Spring?
Animals that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
This is the main source of water usage in homes accounting for nearly 30% of an average homes water consumption.
What are toilets?
A species that other species in an ecosystem largely depend on. If it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically, ex. Bees, turtles, elephants.
What are keystone species?
The reason it can be cold and snowy during the winter, but our planet is still experiencing global warming.
What is the difference between weather and climate?
The year the EPA created the Office of Environmental Justice noting that low-income, minority communities were more likely to be exposed to lead, contaminated fish, air pollution, hazardous waste, and agricultural pesticides.
What is 1992?
The animal known as ‘Farmer’s Friends’
a.) Earthworms
b.) Rats
c.) Snakes
What are earthworms?