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WATER
CLIMATE
REGIONS
ADMINISTRATORS
MISCELLANEOUS
100
What percentage of the Earth’s surface is water?
What is 71% of Earth's surface.
100
This is the primary source of energy for Earth’s climate system?
What is the sun
100
This is the leading region on water
What is Region 5
100
In what state was the current Administrator of the EPA born in?
What is Kentucky
100
Who is the only celebrity to be twitted about by the EPA?
Who is Kim Kardashian
200
About how many people obtain their drinking water from the Great Lakes?
What is 25 million people.
200
This is the amount that the Paris agreement pledged to keep the temperature rise below
What is 2 (degrees Celsius)
200
This is the region of the past Acting Administrator, Ms. McCabe
What is Region 2
200
This was the first female Administrator of the EPA
Who is Anne Gorsuch Burford
200
This is the year of the first Earth Day
What is 1970
300
This is the warmest body of water on the Earth's surface
What is the Persian Gulf
300
This was the first person to publish the term “Climate Change”
Who is geochemist Wallace Broecker in a 1975 paper
300
This is the region of Kansas City
What is Region 7
300
This was the only Administrator to serve under two different Presidents
Who is William Ruckelshaus
300
Who is Joel A.?
Who is Iqra’s cactus that sits on the ledge across from her cubicle
400
This is the Maximum Contaminant Level of nitrate (NO3-N), that is safe for drinking water
What is 10 Mg/L
400
This term describes the ability of a surface to reflect solar energy
What is albedo
400
How many regions are comprised of land from both the continental United States and Islands
What is 3 different regions
400
This Administrator of the Office of Water was once a clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
Who is Joel Beauvais
400
Which company was responsible for the contamination of the Love Canal River that temporarily displaced 700 people?
What is Hooker Chemical
500
Once the TMDL is approved for a waterbody, how many years before the WQS must be met?
What is no limit .. (EPA Regulation does not require a time limit)
500
How long can greenhouse gases remain in Earth’s atmosphere?
What is hundreds of years
500
This region oversees 4 States, a territory, and 148 Tribes?
What is Region 9
500
Who was the first Administrator of the Office of Water?
Who is Tom Jorling
500
Of the 5 U.S. state capitals that begin with the letter "A", what is the one that is farthest north?
What is Augusta, Maine