Environmental Science
The two most abundant gases in the Earth's atmosphere
What is nitrogen and oxygen?
The US federal agency that is responsible for environmental oversight
What is the EPA?
This federal organization goes by the acronym CDC
What is the Center for Disease Control?
You can get a tax benefit by owning this kind of vehicle
What are electric vehicles?
This local organization came to speak about how to advocate for environmental issues at an ESA event on Thursday
What is Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA)?
The definition of "anthropogenic"
What is an impact caused by humans or their activities?
The 2015 international climate treaty named after a famous French city
What is the Paris Agreement?
This town in Michigan made national news in 2014 when their water was contaminated by lead
What is Flint?
This energy source recently became the most economical in the US
What is solar energy?
This country is the top generator of plastic waste
What is the United States?
The most prominent natural example of a spectrum
What is a rainbow?
This state has the more stringent policies on auto emissions
What is California?
Emergency and hazardous waste sites that require a trust fund set up by Congress for clean-up
What are Superfund sites?
This is the system of distributing and trading emission vouchers with the abbreviation C&T
What is Cap & Trade?
What was 2016?
Borescopes are used to measure this
What is atmospheric pressure?
This president created the National Parks Service
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This is the most common cause of illness from contained food or water in the US
What is Norovirus?
This type of ethical investing strategy helps people align their investment choices with their personal values
What is ESG (Environmental, social, and governance) investing?
This is the cycle the accelerates ice melting related to the reflection of light
What is albedo?
The release of water vapor into the atmosphere by plants through the stomata
What is transpiration?
This was the main topic of concern at the Stockholm Convention
What are Persistent Organic Pollutants?
This percentage of the US rivers and streams are polluted and unfit for swimming, fishing, and drinking
What is ~50%?
The GDP fails to account for this type costs
What are external costs?
This the the maximum the Earth's global temperature can rise without ecosystem collapse on a planetary scale
1.5 degrees celsius (1.5 to stay alive)