Pollution Facts #1
Only _ countries in the world met WHO air quality standards in 2023.
What is 7?
People who live in places with high levels of air pollutants have a __% higher risk of death from lung cancer than people who live in less-polluted areas.
What is 20?
I will accept any answer between 15-25
The ______ could be ice-free by 2040.
What is the Arctic?
_________ are the number one natural disaster-related cause of death in the US.
What are heatwaves?
_______ is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area.
What is Climate?
Every minute of every day a truckload of plastic is dumped into the _____.
What is the ocean?
Over 1 million ________ are killed by pollution every year.
What are seabirds?
Humans have already caused _._ degrees Celsius of warming.
What is 1.1?
I will accept any answer between 1-1.5
Since 1870, global sea levels have risen by about _ inches.
What is 8?
I will accept any answer between 7-9
__________ ______ are gases in the earth's atmosphere that trap heat.
What are Greenhouse gases?
__% of premature deaths are from air pollution-related diseases.
What is 10?
I will accept any answer between 5-15
There is an Ocean Garbage Patch Twice the Size of _____.
What is Texas?
There’s more ______ _______ in our atmosphere than at any time in human history.
What is carbon dioxide?
Globally, the increase in heat-related mortality caused the premature deaths of ___,___ people in 2018 alone.
What is 296,000?
I will accept any answer between 250,000-300,000
______ _______ is the long-term warming of the planet's overall temperature.
What is Global Warming?
___ pollution is a greater threat to life expectancy than smoking, HIV, or war.
What is Air?
100,000 sea animals die annually from ____________.
What is entanglement?
More than 1 million species face _________.
What is extinction?
During the past 20 years, there has been a __._% increase in heat-related mortality in people older than 65 years.
What is 53.7?
I will accept any answer between 60-50
_________________________ a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris is litter that ends up in oceans, seas, and other large bodies of water. _________________________, also known as the Pacific trash vortex, spans waters from the West Coast of North America to Japan.
What is The Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
A child born today might not breathe clean air until they're _.
What is 8?
I will accept any answer between 7-9
Air pollution causes up to 36,000 early deaths a year in the country of the ______ _______.
What is the United Kingdom?
Climate change could be irreversible by what year?
What is 2030?
I will accept any answer between 2025-2035
The homes of ___ million people will be below sea level in 70 years.
What is 200?
I will accept any answer between 180-220
_________ is the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing with harmful or poisonous effects.
What is pollution?