Moon
This dust that coats the lunar surface contains oxygen, basalt and water ice, all of which can be extracted for a future moon city.
What is regolith?
This vehicle is of the fastest modes of transportation on earth.
What is an airplane?
These colorful forms of energy are good for the environment and are usually renewable such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric.
What is green energy?
This is a neighborhood greenspace where people grow food and vegetables for community members.
What is a community garden?
The state, quality or ideal of being just, impartial and fair.
What is equity?
These seismic tremors on the moon can be caused by asteroid impacts, heat from the Sun and even the Earth's tides.
What are moonquakes?
This concept refers to how easily people can enter a part of the transportation system like a bus stop or train station.
What is accessibility?
Yuck! This group of energy sources pollute the natural environment and are non-renewable because they take millions of years to form. Examples include coal, oil, natural gas.
What are fossil fuels?
This process of allowing agricultural waste and other organic material to decompose creating a nutrient-rich mixture.
Though you might think camels and cacti at first, this actually refers to areas don’t have access to healthy, affordable food sources like grocery stores and farmers markets.
What is a food desert?
These two types of engineers are primarily involved in the design of our lunar mining rovers.
What are electrical and mechanical engineers?
This futuristic transportation solution uses a system of pressurized tubes to move passengers on a frictionless surface, allowing them to move at extremely high speeds.
What is the Hyperloop?
This process of splitting radioactive materials found on or under the Earth’s surface creates (kilo)tons of nuclear energy and was also used in the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is nuclear fission?
These unwanted materials are produced from agricultural operations. Examples include trash, plastic, rubber, and garbage.
What is agricultural waste?
When middle and upper-class people buy, renovate and rebuild the homes and businesses in poorer communities, it causes this, which the identity or “character” of the neighborhood and can displace former residents.
What is gentrification?
This method of construction, which involves using a computer to layer materials on top of one another, is the best way to construct moon habitats.
What is 3-D printing?
These super sticky trains use magnets to move and suspend themselves above the tracks, allowing them to move at incredible speeds due to lack of friction.
What are maglev trains?
This clean energy comes from the sun and is harnessed in panels and towers.
What is solar power?
This system ensures that the food we produce is healthy, affordable and accessible to everyone and that the way we produce it works with the environment
What is a sustainable food system?
This discriminatory practice involves denying services (typically financial) to residents of certain areas based on their race or ethnicity.
What is redlining?
This chemical process uses electricity to separate materials and extract their useful parts. One example involves splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.
What is electrolysis?
Top floor please! This high-tech space dock, kept in orbit by a super-strong cable and the Moon's gravity, could make getting supplies to and from Earth a lot cheaper.
What is a lunar elevator?
This process of merging atoms creates massive amounts of energy but only relying on chemistry doesn't make this match: you have to heat them up or cool them down to really get things going!
What is nuclear fusion?
In this agricultural practice, having multiple varieties of plant makes the crop stronger because there’s more genetic diversity, which means it’s less likely to suffer from diseases or pest problems.
This is a nonprofit organization that purchases the land in a community but rents it long-term to residents or other businesses, allowing the community to decide how development should take place.
What is a community land trust?