Tiny But Mighty
This tiny bird prefers to pollinate plants with long, tube-shaped flowers.
What is a hummingbird?
This material is produced from petroleum and crude oil, and can linger in the environment for hundreds of years.
What is plastic?
Name one material that does NOT belong in the compost bin.
What is plastic, recyclables, metal, glass, etc?
Name one animal native to our local ecosystem.
What is a bobcat, mountain lion, deer, owls, etc?
This type of clean electricity comes from sunlight harvested through photovoltaic panels.
What is solar power?
This fuzzy insect pollinates about 30% of all the food you eat!
What is a honeybee?
These materials put the “e” in e-waste, and can be recycled at special facilities.
What are electronics?
This is the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside.
What are strawberries?
Name one plant native to our local ecosystem.
What are redwood trees, ceanothus, oaks, madrones, etc?
This greenhouse gas is the primary contributor to climate change.
What is carbon dioxide?
The Monarch butterfly eats just this one plant, which also makes it toxic to predators.
What is milkweed?
This patch of the ocean contains more plastic than sea life, and is the size of Texas.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
This species of invertebrate can process ½ their body weight in food scraps every day!
What are red worms?
Fall Creek, Boulder Creek, and Lompico Creek are all part of this watershed.
What is the San Lorenzo River watershed?
This country produces the most greenhouse gases per capita (per person living in that country) globally.
Who is the United States?
These tiny decomposers put the “B” in the composting FBI: fungi, _____, and invertebrates.
What are bacteria?
This material is laterally recyclable, meaning that it can be recycled over and over forever.
What is glass, OR aluminum?
These important decomposers aren’t plants or animals.
What are fungi / mushrooms?
This anadromous (ocean-going) fish species who call the San Lorenzo River their home are currently listed as “Threatened” under the Endangered Species Act.
What are steelhead trout?
This greenhouse gas is up to 80 times more potent than CO2, and is produced primarily by agriculture (specifically, beef).
What is methane?
These tiny marine organisms aren’t plants, but they produce over half of Earth’s oxygen.
What are phytoplankton?
60% of clothes are made with fossil fuel-based materials such as nylon and polyester, and contribute these into the environment every time they’re washed.
What are microfibers, or microplastics?
Botanically speaking, most vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers, squashes, etc) are actually considered fruits. Broccoli and cauliflower, however, are actually ____.
What are flowers?
This is the name of the Indigenous tribe native to the Santa Cruz region.
Who are the Ohlone, or the Amah Mutsun?
During this age humans developed machines, the steam engine, and modern-day manufacturing, and began to put large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
What is the Industrial Revolution?