Climate Change
Plants/Environment
Animals
How Can I Help?
Misc
100
Is Climate Change good?
No! It's making the planet less inhabitable for all current lifeforms on Earth.
100
What is the Washington State flower?
Pacific Rhododendron
100
What is the Washington State Animal
- State Endemic Mammal: Olympic marmot (designated 2009) — Found only in Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
- State Marine Mammal: Orca (Orcinus orca) (designated 2005).
- State Bird: American goldfinch (Spinus tristis) (designated 1951), also known as the willow goldfinch.
- State Fish: Steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) (designated 1969).
- State Amphibian: Pacific chorus frog (Pseudacris regilla) (designated 2007).
- State Insect: Green darner dragonfly (Anax junius) (designated 1997).
- State Fossil: Columbian mammoth
100
What is societal (or environmental) sustainability
Ensure awareness and education
100
When was the first Earth day?
March 21, 1970
200
Will the oceans rise or lower due to Global Warming?
Rise Ahhh!
global sea level is very likely to rise at least 12 inches (0.3 meters) above the year 2000's levels by 2100 even on a low-emissions pathway. On future scenarios with the highest greenhouse gas emissions, sea level rise could be as high as 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) above 2000 levels by 2100. This is due to the melting of Arctic sea ice.
200
Federally-managed areas, but do allow commercial logging and recreational hunting and fishing.
What is a National Forest?
200
Here, no fishing, logging, commercial hunting, or livestock grazing can occur.
What is a National Park?
200
What are some things (at least 2) you can do as an individual to help the Environment?
- Eating less animal products, and not wasting your food!
- Using less fossil fueled things (cars, airplanes, electricity, plastics etc.)
- Plant trees and other plants!
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, + Compost!
- Don't Litter!
200
About 70% of Earth is covered by water, of that, about how much of that water is drinkable?
A) under 5%
B) 25%
c) 55%
A) under 5%
Only about three percent of Earth's water is freshwater. Of that, only about 1.2 percent can be used as drinking water; the rest is locked up in glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost, or buried deep in the ground.
300
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
The greenhouse effect is a process that occurs when gases in Earth's atmosphere trap the Sun's heat. This process makes Earth much warmer than it would be without an atmosphere. The greenhouse effect is one of the things that makes Earth a comfortable place to live.
300
The number of different species within an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
300
This industry raises animals that produce a lot of methane (ew).
What is dairy, beef, or cattle?
300
This process uses organisms like bacteria, fungi, and small animals to turn organic waste into soil.
Composting
300
When was the first environmentalist law passed?
1863 - the Alkali Act of 1863 was passed by the British Parliament, making it one of the earliest pieces of modern environmental legislation. It was designed to control toxic hydrochloric acid emissions produced by the alkali industry in England, establishing a central inspectorate to enforce standards and reduce pollution.
400
This law restricts pollution into the atmosphere.
What is the Clean Air Act?
400
True or False: Plant-based foods (ie. fruits + vegetables, etc.) on average use more resources, and pollute more, than Animal Products (ie. dairy, meat, etc.)?
False!
Animal products take a lot more resources to produce, and tend to pollute a lot more methane, than growing fruit + vegetable crops alone. They also have nasty waste runoff that can contaminate nearby produce with E-coli.
400
True or False: In general, Indigenous peoples have a sustainable relationship with Earth?
True!
Before Western colonialism and the industrial revolution, the Earth was not in such an environmental crises. Indigenous cultures have always lived sustainably and have actually improved the forests and/or other surrounding areas they have lived in. Indigenous leadership is key to solving our Earth's environmental crisis.
500
How is Ocean Acidification related to Climate Change?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is the main greenhouse gas that causes climate change. Oceans absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, and as result oceans get more acidic. This ocean acidification makes it harder for coral and some other marine life to grow, resulting in weaker and fewer animals and an impacted food-chain.
500
This "island" is about twice the size of France.
What is the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch?"