Energy
Water
Air
Pollution
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
Name a way you can prevent pollution
What is use natural cleaning solutions reduce, reuse, recycle plant a tree
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
Name 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.
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
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
What do we call trash left in nature?
litter
400
This dam produces enough hydroelectric power to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, California, and Arizona
What is the Hoover Dam
400
What is the name of the process when water changes from liquid to gas?
evaporation
400
Name two natural processes that emit pollution into the air.
What are volcanoes and forest fires.
400
What plant reduces pollution?
Trees (they clean the air!)
500
The 4th largest country in the world that consumes the most energy per capita.
What is China
500
What is one cause of water pollution?
plastic, chemicals, oil spills, sewage, agriculture runoff
500
Why is air pollution dangerous for animals?
Affects breathing, damages habitats, harms food chains
500
What spilled in the ocean in the United States in 2011 that caused an environmental disaster?
oil! (oil spill, Deep Water Horizon disaster)
released roughly 134 million gallons (3.19 million barrels) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico