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Wild Weather
Resource Extraction Extravaganza
Electric Mayhem
Ghastly Gases: Air Pollution's Return
Calamitous Climate Change
100
Air of this temperature rises.
Hot air
100
True or false: Coal is a rock.
True.
100
Name one thing that can be burned to make electricity.
Oil, coal, gas, biofuel, wood ...
100
True or false: Ozone is always harmful to human health.
False: high altitude ozone blocks harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
100
Name two greenhouse gases.
CO2, methane (CH4), water vapor, nitrous oxide (N2O), ozone (O3)
200
This line of lattitude gets the most sunshine.
The equator or 0 degrees
200
True or false: Natural gas drillers are required by law to reveal all the chemicals that get pumped into the ground during fracking.
False
200
What else, in addition to a coil of wire, is needed to generate electricity?
A spinning magnet
200
This phenomenon traps polluted air or smog at ground level, much like a lid on a pot.
The inversion layer.
200
Name the treaty that tried to create an international solution to climate change.
Kyoto Protocol
300
Why are deserts and green forests often found on opposite sides of a mountain range?
Rain shadow effect
300
This compressed, decayed plant matter can be transformed into coal under conditions of high heat and pressure.
Peat
300
Name a form of energy that doesn't use a turbine
Solar
300
On these days it is recommended that you not drive a car and ride public transit instead.
Spare the air days
300
When CO2 gets absorbed into the oceans, it forms what coral-killing compound?
Carbonic acid
400
Name the body of water that regulates San Francisco's and (to a large extent) California's climate.
Pacific Ocean
400
Name an industry that is most adversely affected by an oil spill.
Fishing and tourism.
400
In all power plants powered by burning fuel, what makes the turbines turn?
Steam
400
Who gets affected by an AQI (air quality index) score of 101-150?
Sensitve groups, such a asthmatics and the elderly
400
This phenomenon traps solar rays as re-emited infrared radiation in a layer of gases.
Greenhouse Effect
500
What has the power to deflect ocean currents, redirect the path of hurricaines, and drive the earth's airstreams?
Coriolis effect
500
In what mountainous region of the United States does the majority of mountaintop removal take place?
Appalachians of the Eastern US, includes the states of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
500
Name four sources of energy that don't require the buring of a fuel
Hydroelectric, wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal
500
In the chemical reaction that forms ozone, what source of energy drives the reaction?
Sunlight
500
Name a positive feedback loop associated with global warming.
The melting of polar ice caps, clearing forests for agriculture due to less arable land, methane release in the tundra.