ECO-FRIENDLY SWAP
Buying drinks in disposable plastic bottles adds to landfill waste. What is an Eco-friendly alternative?
What is using a reusable water bottle?
This renewable energy source uses spinning blades to generate electricity.
What is wind power?
This natural light show occurs near the poles due to solar particles interacting with Earth’s atmosphere.
What are the auroras? (or Northern Lights)
In 1959, a Treaty was signed to designate this region exclusively for scientific research and peaceful purposes.
What is Antarctica?
The world’s largest rainforest is located in South America and is known as this.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Leaving lights on when you leave a room wastes electricity. What should you do instead? (2 possible options).
What is turning off lights or using motion‑sensor LEDs?
This type of energy harnesses heat from beneath the Earth’s surface.
What is geothermal energy?
This salty body of water is so dense that people can float effortlessly on its surface.
What is the Dead Sea?
In 1963, the Partial Test Ban Treaty banned the testing of these devices in the Atmosphere, in Outer SPace, and Underwater.
What are nuclear weapons?
This U.S. national park is famous for geysers like Old Faithful.
What is Yellowstone?
Using gasoline‑powered lawnmowers produces heavy emissions. What is a greener solution?
What is using an electric or push mower?
Flowing or falling water powers this renewable energy source.
What is hydroelectric power?
This rare lake phenomenon causes deep water to rise to the surface, bringing nutrients with it.
What is upwelling?
The Ozone Hole has shrunk in size every year since the Montreal Protocol banned this refrigerant worldwide.
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
Located off the coast of Australia, this is the largest coral reef system on Earth.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
Using harsh chemical fertilizers harms soil and waterways. What could you switch to?
What is using organic or slow‑release natural fertilizers?
This renewable energy captures power from ocean tides.
What is tidal energy?
This geographic point in the ocean is so remote that spacecraft are often deorbited there.
What is Point Nemo?
Occurrence of this weather phenomenon has been exceedingly rare since the 1994 Oslo Protocol reduced global emissions of Sulfur Dioxide.
What is Acid Rain?
This South American mountain range is the longest continental mountain range in the world.
What are the Andes?
Tossing old paint in the trash contaminates soil. Where is the correct drop‑off location?
What is hazardous waste disposal.
This process splits water into hydrogen and oxygen using renewable electricity.
What is green hydrogen production?
This desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, with areas receiving almost no rainfall.
What is the Atacama Desert?
Under the Paris Agreement, nations agreed to limit global temperature rise to what maximum level?
What is 2 degrees Celsius?
These unique glowing organisms light up beaches at night in places like the Maldives.
What is bioluminescent plankton?