Definitions
The ability to recover from or adjust to difficulties or change?
What is resilience?
The Rate of Earths we are Currently Consuming
What is 1.6 Earths?
The proposed epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact, including, but not limited to, anthropogenic climate change
Extra Points: The Date of the "start" of the Epoch
What is the Anthropocene?
What is 1950?
Radioactive elements are the strongest contender to define the start of the anthropocene
What is True?
The Food Diet that has the Lowest Carbon Footprint
What is Vegan?
The measure of the human demand on Earth's ecosystems
What is Ecological footprint?
The Length of our Current Epoch?
Extra points: The Name of the Epoch
What is 12,000 years?
What is the Holocene?
The use of I=PAT
What is quantifying the relationship between human activities and their environmental impact?
There is triple the nitrogen and phosphorus in our soil due to fertilizer use in the past decades
False, theres only double
The Best Building Materials for a Low-Carbon Footprint (3 answers)
What are Wood, Bamboo, and Hemp?
The web of interactions and relationships among organisms and their environment
What is a network?
The Amount (in tons) of Petroleum-Based Products that have been created since the 1950s
What is 9.1 Billion?
The cause of controversy surrounding changing the epoch
What is the typical length of an epoch?
50% of the total plastics produced since 1950 has been in the last 13 years
True
The Percentage of the U.S that is Clean Energy (roughly)
What is 15%?
A subdivision of geological time determined by significant earthly events
Extra Points: How they were determined
What is a Geological Epoch
What is a Global Signal?
The Total Percent of Plastic Waste that has been Recycled
What is 9 percent?
The aspect of an ecological community that maintains a steady state with continual fluctuations. This provides resiliency.
What is Dynamic Balance?
The Holocene started in the 20th century
False, it started at the end of the ice age
The Part of the I=PAT equation that an ecological footprint calculation fits into.
Extra Points: The Definition of the Rest of the Equation
What is A- Affluence?
What is I-Impact, P-Population, and T-Technology?
The maximum population size of a species that an environment can sustain indefinitely
What is Carrying Capacity?
The Amount (in tons) that will be in the Environment by 2050 if we continue at the same rate
What is 13.2 billion?
The beginning of all ecological flow
What is the sun?
The end of the Cretaceous was marked by “a golden spike” aka the spread of gold dispersed from the meteorite that collided with earth
False, it was metal iridium
An ecological overshoot is:
What is exceeding the natural capacity of the earth?