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100
Power harvested from sunlight often through photovoltaic panels and converted into electricity.
What is solar power.
100
Chemical equation for water
What is H2O
100
Primary gas released into the atmosphere from industrial and automotive emissions responsible for global warming
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)
100

The degraded form of a common material small enough to bypass the blood-brain barrier.

What are microplastics

100

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
200
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. (Oil, coal, natural gas)
200

In 2021, the state of Mississippi sued Tennessee over the unequal distribution of water from this kind of underground water source.

What is an aquifer

200
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
200
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 or pesticides
200

Process of converting food waste into nutrient-rich supplement using worms.

What is vermiculture

300
This energy source became even more controversial after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan. Power is produced by splitting uranium atoms through a process called fission that produces heat which creates steam used to power a turbine.
What is nuclear power.
300
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.
300
The atmospheric layer where UV radiation from the sun is absorbed.
What is the ozone layer (located in the Stratosphere).
300
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emitted from industries and cars combine with precipitation in the atmosphere to form this.
What is acid rain
300
Female biologist from Pittsburgh that is often credited for advancing the environmental movement through her book Silent Spring.
Who is Rachel Carson.
400
This dam produces enough hydroelectric power to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, California, and Arizona
What is the Hoover Dam
400
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
400
Name two natural processes that emit pollution into the air.
What are volcanoes and forest fires.
400
An increase in the concentration of chemical nutrients (i.e. phosphates and nitrates) in a body of water that promotes excessive algae growth which then depletes the amount of oxygen available to other organisms
What is eutrophication
400
International treaty signed in 1997 in Japan that binds industrialized nations to reduce their CO2 emissions
What is the Kyoto Protocol
500
The 4th largest country in the world that consumes the most energy per capita.
What is China
500
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
500
Organic compound responsible for ozone depletion commonly used in refrigerants, aerosols, and solvents that has been restricted under the Montreal Protocol
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
500
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
500
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.
What is Tragedy of the Commons