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100
This 1997 global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases was signed by virtually every country in the world except for the United States.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
100
This controversial political figure in the Trump Administration does not believe in climate change and even wrote an op-ed declaring the phenomenon "a myth."
Who is Mike Pence?
100
These are the three "R's" of waste management.
What is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
100
This is the first national park in the US.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
100
This flightless bird of Mauritius was made extinct in less than a century after its discovery, drawing attention to the human involvement of animal extinction.
What is the Dodo?
200
This automobile pollution control technology became universally adopted following the Clean Air Act Extension of 1970.
What are catalytic converters?
200
This famous, worldwide protest took place on Earth Day 2017.
What is the March for Science?
200
This book helped launch the modern environmental movement, and led to the widespread ban of DDT.
What is Silent Spring?
200
This gyre of marine debris located in the central North Pacific Ocean was discovered between 1985 and 1988. Its low density prevents detection by satellite photography, or even by casual boaters or divers in the area.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
200
This insect's sudden collapse in population in recent years is thought to pose a threat to our current way of life.
What is the honeybee?
300
This United States federal program was introduced in 1980 to clean up abandoned toxic and hazardous waste sites.
What is the Superfund Program?
300
This 25 million year old coral reef has recently been declared "dead" by scientists in Nature Magazine.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
300
This power plant is the location of the worst American nuclear disaster in history resulting from a partial reactor meltdown in 1979.
What is the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station?
300
While 70% of the world is covered by water, only 2.5% of it is fresh. Only this percent of our freshwater is easily accessible, with much of it trapped in glaciers and snowfields.
What is 1%?
300
This iconic bird was removed from the endangered species list in 2007, after reaching near-extinction in the continental United States.
What is the bald eagle?
400
This international agreement set the groundwork for phasing out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other substances known to deplete the ozone layer.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
400
We are currently living in this great extinction period.
What is the Holocene/Anthropocene/sixth extinction?
400
This American river caught fire in 1969, prompting multiple pollution control measures.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
400
This chemical element in gases is the primary cause of ozone depletion.
What is chlorine?
400
This groundhog is known for predicting winter-like weather during Groundhog Day.
Who is Punxsutawney Phil?
500
The Stockholm Convention of 2001 aimed to reduce these chemical substances that are known to bio-accumulate and pose a risk to human health.
What are persistent organic pollutants (POPs)?
500
This floating ocean cleanup vessel is named after the publicly liked name of what is now called the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
What is Boomy McBoomface?
500
With over 1.2 million people displaced, 13 cities flooded, submersion of polluted factories, and location on top of geologic fault lines, this is widely thought to be the most environmentally destructive dam project of all time.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
500
This natural disaster in Texas is known as the "deadliest single day event in US history."
What is Hurricane Galveston?
500
This dog became the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit.
Who is Laika?