Climate Change
Located in the stratosphere, this protective layer acts as Earth’s “sunscreen” by absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is the Ozone Layer?
This is the term used for the process of removing salt and minerals from sea water to produce fresh drinking water.
What is desalination?
This type of warming describes when the Earth’s temperature is rising over time.
What is global warming?
This Caribbean island was the most recent to be affected by the eruption of the La Soufriere volcano.
What is St. Vincent?
This is the natural disaster that a volcanologist studies.
What is a volcano?
These are the special gases in our atmosphere that regulate the temperature on our planet.
What are greenhouse gases?
This compound is represented by the symbol H2O.
What is water?
This is the name given to a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall that leads to severe water shortages.
What is a drought?
This government department is responsible for coordinating comprehensive disaster risk management across the territory.
What is the Department of Disaster Management or DDM?
This person is responsible for studying weather patterns.
What is a meteorologist?
This greenhouse gas is absorbed by plants and released as oxygen.
What is carbon dioxide?
The Water and Sewerage Department recently merged with this government statutory body.
What is the BVI Electricity Cooperation?
Increased concentrations of greenhouse gases are causing oceans to become more acidic, severely impacting these fragile marine ecosystems.
What are coral reefs?
This is the year when the British Virgin Islands was hit by two category 5 hurricanes.
What is 2017?
A hydrologist studies the movement, distribution and circulation of this element.
What is water?
This is the term given to the amount of greenhouse gases that your lifestyle produces.
What is your carbon footprint?
This water borne disease resulted in many deaths in the BVI, and there are burial areas dedicated for the fallen patients.
What is cholera?
This is the name of the dust that originates in Africa and causes respiratory distress for persons in our islands.
What is Sahara Dust?
This is the name given to the annual regional tsunami simulation exercise.
What is Caribe Wave?
This natural disaster results when tectonic plates shift along fault lines.
What is an earthquake?
Non-renewable energy sources such as coal, oil and natural gas are examples of this type of fuel.
What is fossil?
This is a term used when large amounts of fuel from ships contaminate water ways.
What is an oil spill?
What is the term used to describe melted polar ice and seawater expansion due to increased temperatures?
What is sea-level rise?
This Caribbean island whose capital is Plymouth was plagued with volcanic eruptions which began in 1995.
What is Monserrat?
This sudden event can occur after heavy rainfall and is especially dangerous because it rises rapidly with little warning.
What is a flash flood?