Climate Change
Geology
To infinity and Beyond
Animals
Sustainability
100
Climate Change's poster child
What is the polar bear
100
The only person cable of mastering all four elements (Water, Earth, Fire, Air) and restoring balance to the world.
What is the Avatar
100
TRUE or FALSE: The Earth is flat.
What is FALSE.....??
100
This lil dude speaks for the truffula trees, for the truffula trees have no tongues, and he asks at the top of his lungs, as he huffs and puffs "What have you done with my TRUFFULA TUFT?"
What is the LORAX
100
This organization was established in 1970 by Congress & the White house with the goal of "protecting human health and the environment" through sustainable practices.
What is the EPA
200
The most abundant greenhouse gas in the earth's atmosphere
What is water vapor
200
The mechanical or chemical breaking down of rocks
What is weathering
200
Grouping of stars mostly described by ancient astronomers
What is a constellation
200
What do you do if you've lost your son out at sea and life has got you down?
What is "Just keep swimming!"
200
The most widely used renewable power source
What is hydro power
300
a documentary film (by Al Gore) about a campaign to educate citizens about global warming through a comprehensive slide show
What is "An Inconvenient Truth"
300
These minerals are known for their conchoidal fractures
What are quartz, flint, jasper, obsidian, opal, glass
300
Every atom of every element is as old as this theoretical event
What is the Big Bang
300
We are all currently prisoners of bird war due to this invasive species that is attempting to conquer Oakland
What are crows
300
If everyone on Earth lived like an average American, how many planets would we need to provide an adequate supply of natural resources in order to sustain us – 1, 5, or 10?
What are 5 earths
400
a climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean with a global impact on weather patterns. The cycle begins when warm water in the western tropical Pacific Ocean shifts eastward along the equator toward the coast of South America.
What is El Nino
400
A scale used to measure the relative hardness of a mineral by its resistance to scratching.
What is Moh's Hardness Scale
400
Every atom of this element was present during the Big Bang
What is Hydrogen
400
The placing of a species that was previously displaced, back into it's natural habitat
What is reintroducing/reintegrating
400
the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.
What is an ecological footprint
500
This country had it's first recorded snow fall in 2008 due to the changing climate
What is Iraq
500
The total area from which water flows into a river/an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
What is a drainage basin
500
A circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter
What is the asteroid belt
500
These African predators are called the "big five game" because of how difficult they are to hunt on foot.
What are lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants, & cape buffalo
500
Types of soil conservation used in agriculture (list at least 3)
What is contour plowing, terracing, no-till farming, cover crops/crop rotation, inter-cropping, windbreaks, mineralization