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CITES is an international treaty seeking to give protection to this, applying to both plants and animals.
What is Endangered Species?
This corporation, headquarted in Calgary, seeks to provide safe, efficient, orderly, and the environmentally responsible development of energy resources in the Canadian province that makes up part of it's name.
What is the Alberta Energy Regulator?
We were taught this alliterative slogan in school, to help teach us the 3 different forms of recycling.
What is "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"?
This ecosystem has the least amount of biodiversity.
What is Tundra?
The Toyota Prius was the first mass-produced type of this vehicle, produced in Japan in 1997.
What is hybrid?
This independent executive agency is responsible for the protection of human health and the environment.
What is the Enivornmental Protection Agency?
This region produces 20% of the planet’s oxygen.
What is the Amazon?
There are only 5 species of this animal left in the world, making them one of the most endangered animals.
What is a rhinoceros?
Though he was a known big-game hunter, this US President was one of the most active champions of wilderness preservation in history.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Mount Everest is located in this mountain chain.
What is the Himalayas?
Don Hodel, The Secretary of this department in the Reagan era, famously suggested that a solution to the depletion of the ozone layer was to don a hat and sunglasses and wear long-sleeves.
What is Energy?
This country is the highest consumer of water per person, with each person using 100,000 litres of fresh water per year.
What is Australia?
This city won the Nordic Nature and Environment Prize in 2014 and is the most sustainable city in the world.
What is Reykjavik?
In 2000, this Giant Panda, whose name means "more and more" arrived at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC.
Who is Tian Tian?
During the 1990's, over 2,000 people died of this extreme weather event.
What is a heat wave?
Products with this label meet specifications, testing procedures, and verification testing requirements for various consumer appliances, electronics, and commercial equipment.
What is Energy Star?
This is the result when industrial chemicals combine with condensing water vapor.
What is acid rain?
This is the theme of Earth Day 2021.
What is "Restore Our Earth"?
Resembling a wolf, the Thylacine was once the world’s largest meat-eating marsupial. Prior to it's extinction, you could find one in Australia, New Guinea, and this island state.
What is Tasmania?
On January 12th, 2010, this country experienced a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, the most devastating natural disaster ever experienced in it's history.
What is Haiti?
This word, describing the study of the relationships between living organisms and their physical environment, was coined in 1866 by German scientist Ernst Haeckel
What is Ecology?
In 2011, 28 million trees were planted in this country for the Earth Day “Plant Trees, Not Bombs” campaign.
What is Afghanistan?
This author, credited as one of the founders of the modern environmental movement, wrote 'Silent Spring', the first book documenting many of the problems caused by pesticides.
Who is Rachel Carson?
Approximately 10 million trees are cut down every year to make this household product.
What is toilet paper?
This politician has championed environmental causes while on the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Natural Resources, and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. In 2009 she became the first Latina woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Who is Hilda Lucia Solis?