What Ya Eating?
Creature that consumers only vegetable matter
What is a vegetarian?
The most prominent gas in our atmosphere.
It's only about 2.5% of all the water on Earth.
Only .3% of is liquid.
What is freshwater?
Burning natural products releases this element into the atmosphere.
What is carbon?
The Dust Bowl was caused in part because of the destruction of this layer of soil.
What is topsoil?
What kind of food are you eating? It's a stem.
What is asparagus?
The section of the atmosphere where we live.
What is the troposphere?
A tidal river is one example of it.
What is an estuary?
A type of energy that is specific to coastal areas. It depends upon the moon to exist.
What is tidal power?
It made the term "sodbuster," possible.
What is the plow?
A fruit that is treated like a vegetable.
What is a tomato?
A gas that is needed in the upper atmosphere, but dangerous at the planet's surface?
What is Ozone?
The type of water that combines salt with fresh water?
What is brackish?
Discovered in 1839 by a young French man, this form of energy is useful in many parts of the world.
What is solar energy?
What is the Green Revolution?
Raising food without artificial chemicals, with the surrounding environment in mind.
What is organic?
During a house fire, this type of smoke is the most dangerous.
What are plastic fumes?
Though it is thirst quenching, this liquid is devoid of minerals that are necessary for human health.
What is distilled water?
Hydroelectricity is powered by this machine,
Invented by James Francis in 1849.
The water turbine.
Uses physics to guide water more slowly toward crops and away from waterways. Furrows are placed parallel to the rising and falling of the soil surface.
What is contour planting?
Keeping livestock in a small space, fed en masse, in order to minimize time and cost.
What is a CAFO? (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation.)
A major air current that runs westerly, bringing weather fronts along with it.
What is the jet stream?
The deepest part of the ocean.
What is the Challenger Deep?
Nuclear powered energy production relies upon this piece of machinery.
In 1953 this was written a letter in a letter to the Wall Street Journal. "It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within."
Who is Rachel Carson?