Rock and Roll
The three categories of rocks
Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary
Flying mammal that is also a pollinator
Bat
What is environmental racism?
Racial and ethnic minorities and members of low-socioeconomic groups are disproportionately burdened by harmful environmental exposures that impact their overall health and well-being.
The four layers of the Earth
Crust, Mantle, Inner Core, Outer Core
Former planet that no longer fits NASA’s criteria of a planet in our solar system
Pluto
The plane of molecular weakness in a mineral (plane in which it breaks)
Cleavage
The name of atmospheric layer that screens out most of the harmful radiation from the sun
The Ozone Layer
Geographically defined zones designed to establish a robust industrial and infrastructure base that often exist in neighborhoods of lower income and people of color
Opportunity Zones/Enterprise Zones/Industrial Corridors
Earth eon frequently compared to Hell and Venus’s atmosphere
Hadean
Process in which water moves from plants and the land surface into the atmosphere
Evapotranspiration
Difference between felsic and mafic rocks
Approximately how much energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next
10%
City whose water crisis that systemically failed its majority black population to save money
Flint, Michigan
Name of the era we are currently in
Cenozoic
NASA mission Professor Andrew Dombard is involved with
Europa Clipper Mission
Band who released the song Thunderstruck in 1990
AC/DC
Keystone Species
Principles that were drafted at the National People of Color and Environmental Leadership Summit to focus on disrupting systemic environmental racism
The Principles of Environmental Justice
The major difference between older models of continental drift and the modern theory of plate tectonics
The mechanism of movement
Most abundant element on Earth
Iron (Fe)
How you predict the arrangement of electron pairs around central atoms in molecules
Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion Theory (VSEPR)
Name of the formula used to estimate allele and genotype frequencies in a population
Hardy-Weinberg Formula/Equation
City that is still suffering the aftermath of a hazardous chemical leak in 1984 that killed over 20,000 people
Bhopal, India
When was the last major extinction event?
Now
A planet that is located outside our solar system
Exoplanet