Geography
Total number of oceans in the world
Five
The surface of the planet is approximately 71% water and contains (5) five oceans, including the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Southern.
This gas is responsible for 75% of the warming effect from greenhouse gases
Carbon Dioxide
LinkedIn started in this decade
2000's
LinkedIn started on May 5, 2003. It went public in May 19, 2011
.GIF is the abbreviation for _______________
Graphics Interchange Format
These are the traditional Halloween colors
Black and Orange
Orange is associated with fall harvest and black is associated with darkness and death
This is the deepest place on the surface of Earth
Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench
The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest place on the surface of Earth, with a small depression called the Challenger Deep the deepest part of the trench. The depression reaches depths of nearly 35,814 feet.
Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year. In US the major impacts on public health will be higher incidences of illnesses like _____
(Name One)
Respiratory illness (Allergy, Asthma); Heat Stress (cardiovascular, illness); Lyme disease; Vector Borne (Malaria, West Nile); Water-borne; Malnutrition (from food shortage & low nutrition food)
The bird featured in Twitter’s iconic logo and branding is called ______
Larry
Larry the Bird is named after former NBA basketball player Larry Bird of Boston Celtics fame.
As of 2018, this was the world's most commonly used password
123456
UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), analyzed passwords belonging to accounts worldwide that had been breached, and found this one to be the most common with 23.2 million accounts. 'qwerty', 'password' and '111111' are other examples.
Outside of China, these countries celebrate the Chinese New Year as they have high Chinese populations
(Any Two)
Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines
This country has the largest number of natural, freshwater lakes
Canada
Nine percent of Canada is covered in freshwater lakes, the country has more lakes than anywhere else in the world.
The warmest year on record is ______
2016
NASA data shows that global averages in 2016 were 1.8F warmer than the mid-20th century average. 17 of the 18 warmest years have occurred since 2000.
This was the top trending Google search in 2018
The World Cup
Followed by Aviici, Mac Miller, Stan Lee and Black Panther
This is the world's most harnessed renewable energy source (thanks to technological innovation)
Hydropower
Hydropower is the world's biggest source of renewable energy by far, with China, Brazil, Canada, the U.S., and Russia the leading hydropower producers.
Memorial Day originally honored soldiers who dies in this war
US civil war
Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971.
This country has the lowest population density in the world
Mongolia
Mongolia has a population density of only 1.9 people per square kilometer.
A warming ocean causes thermal stress that contributes to coral ______ and infectious disease
Bleaching
This social media platform is most popular among school aged teens (ages 13-17)
YouTube
Followed by Snapchat and Instagram
The fear of not having access to a cell phone is known as __________
Nomophobia
Mr. Scrooge's first name in Charles Dickens' book "A Christmas Carol"
Ebenezer Scrooge
These islands are only 2.4 miles apart. Because they sit on opposite sides of the International Date Line, they have a 21-hour time difference between them. This is why they are nicknamed Tomorrow and Yesterday Island.
The Diomede Islands
Big Diomede is owned by Russia, and Little Diomede is owned by the United States.
Islands in these three places disappeared due to climate change
Kiribati, Hawaii and Arctic
As of September 2019, this Instagram account had the most followers worldwide
Followed by Cristiano Ronaldo, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez
This was the name of the first computer virus released (in the wild)
Brain
The first computer virus to be released in the wild wasn't malicious. Called "Brain," the program was created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi brothers of Pakistan as a method to deter copying the medical software they wrote. It targeted IBM PCs and would replace a floppy disk's boot sector with a copy of the virus and flag the real boot sector as bad.
Turkey chicks are called ______
Poults
In US they are also called Turkeylings