Climate Change
The warming of the planet as a result of the greenhouse effect.
What is Global Warming?
The bins that the YMCA Earth Service Corps 25-26 installed in school bathrooms.
What is Compost?
What is a crow?
The green plant that makes up people's lawns.
What is grass?
The form plastics take when they have been broken into tiny particles.
What are microplastics?
The name for consumable energy sources derived from fossils.
What is a Fossil Fuel?
The amount of time a plastic bag takes to decompose. (Answer within 50 years).
What is 1,000 years?
The orca pods which live permanently in the Puget Sound.
What are the Resident Orca Pods?
The process that plants use to create glucose from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
A low carbon energy source.
What are solar, wind, hydro, or nuclear power?
The reason why increased temperatures raise the sea level.
What are melting icebergs?
A trait of a location that makes people much more likely to litter there.
What does already having littered trash in a place do?
An abundant resident of the Ballard Locks. Often found gorging themselves on salmon. Multiple unsuccessful attempts have been made by the city to deter them.
The national park with the tallest trees in the world.
What is Redwood National Park?
The age of Sir David Attenborough.
What is 100?
The process where ocean water absorbs carbon dioxide and it lowers the ocean's pH.
What is Ocean Acidification?
The most abundant littered item.
What are cigarette butts?
An animal known by many as a "seahawk."
What is an osprey?
The signature tree of the Pacific Northwest.
What is an evergreen?
A plan put in place by Joe Biden, and the United Nations. It aims to make 30% of the ocean a marine protected area by 2030.
What is 30 By 30?
A greenhouse gas other than carbon dioxide.
What are nitrous oxide, methane, ozone, or fluorinated gasses?
The size in square miles of the Great Pacific Garbage patch. (Answer within 50,000 square miles)
What is 620,000 square miles?
An animal that can drink saltwater and excrete the salt out through ducts under its eyes.
What is a seagull?
The chemical that makes plants green.
What is Chlorophyll?
A famous city which is estimated to be isolated from the country before the end of the century as a result of the rising Gulf of Mexico
What is New Orleans?