Plants & Wildlife
This is the term for the variety of all life on Earth.
What is biodiversity.
A material found in nature that can be used by people.
What is a natural resource.
What is one specific way that we can reduce our water usage.
Energy from the sun captured through panels on rooftops is known by this term.
What is solar energy?
This practice involves reducing waste by turning food scraps and yard waste into nutrient-rich soil.
What is composting?
The term for a type of species that is local to an area.
What is a native species.
The three major fossil fuels are coal, natural gas, and this liquid resource.
What is oil?
The primary river that flows directly through Fairfield and the surrounding Central Maine area.
What is the Kennebec River?
This renewable energy source uses turbines powered by moving air.
What is wind energy?
These gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere.
What are greenhouse Gases?
This is a plant or animal that is at risk of becoming extinct. This means its population has become so critically low, or its habitat so degraded, that it faces a very high risk of disappearing from the Earth.
What is an Endangered species?
These specific geological remains formed the fossil fuels we use today.
What are the remains of ancient plants and animals?
Water from streets, roofs, and parking lots that flows directly into storm drains without being treated.
What is runoff?
This is the term for power derived from finite natural resources that cannot be replenished within a human lifetime.
What is non renewable energy?
This human activity is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.
What is burning fossil fuels?
The term for a type of species that is not originally from an area and that harms species in new habitats.
What is an invasive species.
An area of land that drains all its water into a single river, stream, or lake.
What is a watershed?
This is an underground layer of water-bearing rock, gravel, or sand that yields water.
What is an aquifer?
This is the term for power derived from natural sources that are continuously and naturally replenished
What is renewable energy?
Name one way to reduce your carbon footprint by transportation.
Carpooling, walking, biking, public transit, electric vehicles, etc.
Name at least 2 Endangered species in Maine
What is...
New England Cottontail, Golden Eagle, Piping Plover, Saltmarsh sparrow, Atlantic puffin, Little brown bat, black racer snake, blanding's turtle, etc.
The sun is an example of what type of resource?
What is a renewable resource.
This specific sector of human activity accounts for the largest freshwater withdrawal globally.
What is agriculture/ irrigation?
This organic, renewable material comes from plants and animal waste, and can be burned directly or converted into liquid biofuels.
What is biomass?
By buying these, you lower the greenhouse gas emissions associated with shipping, refrigeration, and packaging.