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Endangered Planet
Five Themes
Tools
Natural Resources
Energy
100
Poisoning from Minimata Bay was a result of this
What is mercury poisoning?
100
Geographers use this perspective to study the world
What is spatial?
100
The World Time Zone map is divided into this many zones
What is 24?
100
True/False Soil is a nonrenewable resource
What is false?
100
The most widely used renewable energy source is
What is hydroelectric?
200
Author of Silent Spring
Who is Rachel Carson?
200
Amtrak's rail system in the midwest is an example of this
What is a functional region?
200
This nationality was credited with calculating the size and shape of the Earth
who are the Greeks?
200
Irrigation can lead to this
What is soil salinization?
200
Yucca Mountain is in this state
What is Nevada?
300
As a result of Earth Day, President Nixon created this
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
300
The scenery of a place, including its physical and human features is this
What is landscape?
300
the number of time zones in contiguous U.S.
What is 4?
300
Petrochemicals come from this fossil fuel
What is oil/petroleum?
300
Nuclear energy accounts for this percent of U.S. energy
What is 20%?
400
This president was responsible for signing the Clean Air Act.
Who is President Nixon?
400
Another word for lines of longitude
What is meridians?
400
A Mercator map uses this projection
What is cylindrical?
400
artificial channels for transporting water
What are aqueducts?
400
The most widely used fossil fuel for energy
What is coal?
500
The environmental damage at Love Canal was caused by this
What is buried toxic chemicals?
500
The elevation, layout and shape of the land is this
What is topography?
500
This type of map has the most detail
What is vector?
500
This fossil fuel emits the least amount of carbon dioxide
What is natural gas?
500
This percent of water on Earth is considered fresh in its natural state
What is 3%