Global Climate and policy
What major global event held every year on April 22nd brings awareness to environmental protection worldwide?
Earth day
What basic plant process takes in carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water to produce oxygen?
Photosynthesis
What are 3 forms of clean energy?
Wind, solar, nuclear, hydropower, geothermal, bioenergy,
Cardboard, newspapers, and soda cans should go where instead of the trash?
Recycling bin
Where does Green team meet?
Room 7124
What do we call the long-term shift in global temperatures and weather patterns caused mainly by human activity?
Climate change
What type of ecosystem/biome is responsible for absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide and producing oxygen?
Rainforests/forest
Which nation currently produces the most nuclear energy in the world annually?
The United states
What is the name of the massive collection of floating plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean?
The great pacific garbage patch
How often and on what day does Green team meet?
Every 2 weeks on Monday
What greenhouse gas traps significantly more heat than carbon dioxide short-term?
Methane
What insect is responsible for fertilizing a third of the crops we eat, but faces large population drops due habitat loss?
Bees
What major technological barrier prevents solar and wind energy from being more feasible?
The lack of large scale energy storage
What food waste management practice turns vegetable scraps and coffee grounds into nutrient rich dirt?
Who is the sponsor of green team?
Ms. S
Which country currently produces the highest amount of annual carbon emissions in the world?
China
What ocean habitat supports 25% of all ocean life despite covering less than 1% of the seafloor?
Coral reefs
one prompt to a generative AI consumes roughly how many times more electricity than a standard web search (within 1x)?
About 10x
What is the name of highly wasteful clothing produced rapidly and cheaply by mass-market retailers?
Fast fashion
What is one club we have collaborated with?
Zoology club, earth science club, chemistry club, horticulture club
Signed in 2015, what international treaty agreed to limit global warming to below 2°C?
The Paris agreement
What natural event causes ocean water temperatures to warm significantly in the Pacific, disrupting global weather patterns and ecosystems every few years?
El Niño
What type of energy uses organic plant waste, crop residues, or wood chips to create fuel or electricity?
Biomass/biofuel
How many million metric tons of waste does humanity produce every day globally (within 2 million tons)
7 million tons