Pop Culture and the Earth
The "Ice Age" series shows the gradual loss of these frozen areas, which is tied to the changing climate in the real world.
What is glaciers or ice-caps?
What rainforest is commonly referred to as “the lungs of the Earth”
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
What renewable energy source is generated from the movement of water, often through dams?
Hydroelectric power.
How many EV chargers are there on campus?
4
The gradual increase in Earth's average surface temperature due to rising greenhouse gases is known as what?
Global warming
The character "Once-ler" in the movie The Lorax represents this type of environmental destruction that leads to the loss of the Truffula trees.
What is deforestation?
What is the largest living structure on Earth?
The Great Barrier Reef
Which renewable energy source relies on sunlight to generate electricity using solar panels?
Solar energy.
What two products are produced on campus?
Honey and maple syrup
This gas, often referred to as the most significant greenhouse gas, is primarily emitted by burning fossil fuels.
Carbon dioxide (CO2).
In the movie Wall-E, the main character Wall-E, the last active robot on Earth, symbolizes this vital environmental task that humans must take on to restore the planet.
What is cleaning up the environment or recycling?
What is the climate phenomenon, called “The Little Boy” in Spanish, that occurs when warm ocean waters disrupt normal weather patterns in the Pacific.
What is the El Niño?
This renewable energy source uses the kinetic energy of wind to turn turbines and generate electricity.
Wind power.
What two types of renewable energy are used on campus?
Geothermal and Solar.
If Earth's temperature rises more than this many degrees, climate change could become irreversible.
1.5 degrees Celsius
In "Avatar," the planet Pandora faces environmental destruction due to this type of human activity.
What is resource exploitation or mining?
What is a natural phenomenon that is a result of charged particles from the sun?
What are the Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis?
This form of renewable energy harnesses the heat from beneath the Earth’s surface to generate electricity. What is it called?
Geothermal energy.
What is the most common product that is thrown into the recycling when it should go in the garbage?
Paper towel
The Arctic is warming how many times faster than the rest of the world?
Four times faster
The film "Happy Feet" deals with this issue, which is affecting the penguin population and their ability to find food.
What is overfishing?
What is the massive ice sheet that covers 80% of its continent, holds about 60% of the world's freshwater and plays a crucial role in regulating global sea levels.
What is the Antarctic Ice Sheet?
The largest wind farm in the world is located off the coast of which country?
The United Kingdom.
The forest on Northcote campus offsets the emissions from how many cars per year?
83 cars.
What is the name of the agreement, signed in 2015, in which almost 200 countries committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change?
The Paris Agreement.