VR
Environmental issuess
How it hurts
How it helps
Solutions
100

What VR stands for

What is Virtual Reality

100

Resources that can not be recreated

What are non-renewable resources

100

The two types of causes of harm to the environment

What are direct and indirect causes

100

What new workers can do with VR

What is training

100

What we want hardware to be

What is recyclable

200

The science topic that is utilized when designing virtual worlds

What is physics

200

The gases that trap heat from the sun, warming the Earth

What are greenhouse gases

200

Where it is harmful for liquid waste to be disposed of

What are rivers, lakes, and waterways

200

What games and simulations can help people be educated on

What are environmental issues

200

What recycling and reusing materials reduce the need for

What is mining

300

2 out of the 3 main device components of VR technology

What are headsets, headphones, and controllers

300

______ Fuels

What are fossil fuels

300

The pollution that mining often leads to

What is air pollution and water pollution

300

What VR can be used for instead of long distance travel

What are educational trips

300

Where data could be stored to save energy consumption

What is the cloud

400

The main three senses utilized in virtual reality

What is sight, sound, and touch

400

Two of the effects of climate change on wildlife habitats

What are drought, forced migration, and loss of habitat in colder climates (polar bears)

400

What more data processing leads to 

What is carbon emmissions

400

The name of the game that takes place in a plastic filled world

What is Plasticity

400

What we want to do with old hardware

What is upgrading/reusing

500

When the first Virtual Reality system was created

When is 1968 (patented in 1962)

500

The environments most affected by manufacturing

What are aquatic habitats
500

The pounds of carbon dioxide emitted by training just one AI model

626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide

500

What we can simulate to show different effects on an environment

What is introducing different stimuli

500

Making this will reduce the need for new systems

What are repairable systems