Resilience

Flood

100

This type of flood is caused by rapid and excessive rainfall that raises water heights quickly

What is flash flood?

200

What BFE stands for

What is base floor elevation?

300

What FIRM stands for 

What is Flood Insurance Rate Maps?

400

Flood zone that is outside the 500‐year flood limit and is protected by a levee from 100‐year floods.

What is Zone X? 

500

The date in which Newport News entered the CRS

What is 

$$$

100

What HMA stands for 

What is Hazard Mitigation Assistance? 

200

What BRIC stands for

Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities

300

A program that provides funding to states, federally recognized tribal governments, and local governments to fund projects that reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings insured by the NFIP

What is the flood mitigation assistance grant program?

400

Program offers capitalization grants for states to establish revolving loan funds for hazard mitigation.

What is the Safeguarding Tomorrow Revolving Fund Program?

500

New York ballot proposition that made $4.2 billion available for environmental and community projects in 2022.

What is the Environmental Bond Act?

Buildings

100

This electric technology offers both heating and cooling 

What is heat pumps?

200

This component of a building can be subject to efficiency measures such as insulating roofs, walls, and floors?

What is envelope?

300

This “W” practice involves protecting a building and its interior from the elements, such as sunlight, precipitation, and wind, thereby reducing energy consumption and optimizing energy efficiency.

What is weatherization?

400

This building type accounts for the largest percentage of US electricity demand at approximately 37%

What is residential building? 

500

Burning fossil fuels in buildings accounts for what percent of climate emissions in the US?

What is 10%?

Nature-Based Solutions

100

This concept refers to farming in a responsible manner that minimizes soil, ecosystem impact, and biodiversity.

What is regenerative agriculture?

200

This natural climate solution has the greatest climate mitigation potential in the US in the near term (by 2025)

What is reforestation? 

300

A system of trees connected by an underground infiltration structure

What is tree trenches?

400

Type of trees important for coastal resilience  

What is Mangroves trees?

500

These two practices are being promoted by carbon markets as ways to boost carbon soil sequestration 

what is cover crops and no till?