Energy
Country with the highest fossil fuel consumption
What is the United States?
Most of the fresh surface water in the United States is found here.
What are the Great Lakes?
Primary gas released into the atmosphere from industrial and automotive emissions responsible for global climate change
What is Carbon Dioxide?
This is the most polluted river in the world.
What is the Ganges?
Celebrated every year on April 22
What is Earth Day?
Non-renewable resources derived from dead organic material (i.e. plants and dinosaurs) that has been compressed over thousands of years and extracted for energy consumption.
What are fossil fuels?
Two ways you can help conserve water
What is take shorter showers, turn water off while brushing teeth, limit amount of water used for watering lawns and gardens.
Grab your inhaler! This chronic lung disease affects more than 25 million Americans is the result of air pollution such as particulate matter, pollen, and ground level ozone.
What is asthma?
Although these chemicals promote plant growth on farms, gardens, and golf courses they become extremely harmful when they enter the atmosphere and waterways.
What are fertilizers?
Measure of an individual's impact on the environment by calculating Greenhouse gas emissions from their lifestyle (i.e. consumption and transportation)
What is carbon footprint?
This non-renewable energy source emits zero greenhouse gas emissions.
What is Nuclear Energy?
The continuous circulation of water as it evaporates from the land and sea, enters the atmosphere, condenses and precipitates to the earth's surface, then moves underground by infiltration.
What is the water cycle?
Gas that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation
What is Ozone?
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emitted from industries and cars combine with precipitation in the atmosphere to form this.
What is acid rain?
Continent with the most rapidly growing human population
What is Africa?
This dam produces enough hydroelectric power to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, California, and Arizona
What is the Hoover Dam?
An area of land where any groundwater underneath of it or precipitation that falls on it drains into one river, basin, or sea.
What is a watershed?
Name two natural processes that emit pollution into the air.
What are volcanoes and forest fires?
This sector of transportation emits more air pollution than any other sector.
What is air travel?
President who founded National Parks, National Forests and the National Wildlife Refuge System
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Most of the electricity generation in New York State comes from this energy source.
What is hydroelectricity?
Federal law passed in 1972 that placed limits on the amounts of toxic chemicals that can be discharged into a body of water. Provisions to this act include the Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the establishment of a superfund, or CERCLA.
What is the Clean Water Act?
International Treaty signed in 2016 aim to cut fossil fuel emissions to limit climate change at or below 2oC
What are the Paris Accords?
Term used to describe cities that have consistently higher temperatures than surrounding areas because of a greater retention of heat from buildings, concrete, and asphalt.
What is the heat island effect?
Theory developed by Garrett Hardin that shared common resources are more likely to be overused and degraded when individuals act to fulfill their own short-term self interests over the interests of the group.