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100

Beloved knight and Earth rights activist, famous for voicing and starring in numerous wildlife documentaries and starring in the climate change movie: Are We Changing the Earth?

Who is Sir David Attenborough

100

What gas is most commonly associated with human-caused global warming?

What is Carbon dioxide (CO₂) 

100

How long ago (approximately) was the first Ice Age?

What is 2.1-2.4 billion years ago

100

The major living source of the organic compound methane, commonly associated with flatulence

What are cow farts?

100

In this animated film a small robot falls in love and helps humans return to an Earth trashed by its former inhabitants

What is Wall-E

200

Who started the youth-led movement "Fridays for Future"?

What is Greta Thunberg 

200

This major technological revolution is largely accredited as the beginning of large-scale carbon pollution and began in the late 18th century

What is the Industrial Revolution

200

Originally created in 1970, this now global holiday was created before the EPA to help bring awareness to Earth's climate threats

What is Earth Day

200

This fruit has become a mainstay in American cuisine as a source of healthy fats. Unfortunately, its growth is projected to decrease by up to 41% in the next 25 years.

What are avocadoes

200

This 2004 blockbuster disaster movie features superstorms and flash freezes, imagining the sudden onset of a new ice age.

What is The Day After Tomorrow

300

This former U.S. Vice President tried to raise awareness of climate change in his 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth

Who is Al Gore

300

How many tonnes of CO2 do we emit each year?

What is 35-40 billion (depending on reports)

300

How many mass extinctions have there been in the past?

What is 5

300

In 2021, this terrifying weather phenomenon reminiscent of a waterspout occurred during the California wildfires, which were speculated to occur because of climate change

What is a firenado

300

This Netflix satirical film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence critiques media and political inaction on climate change through the metaphor of a different incoming disaster.

What is Don't Look Up

400

What 2015 climate agreement was influenced by decades of environmental activism and negotiation?

What is the Paris Climate Agreement 

400

What type of compounds commonly used in refrigeration and air cooling were responsible for depletions in the ozone layer of the atmosphere?

What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

400

When was human-driven climate change first discovered?

What is 1938

400

How many super volcanoes are there? 

What is 20

400

This 2013 hit from Director Bong Joon-ho was created as a social commentary on classism, using a failed climate experiment as a catalyst for the trainwreck that follows

What is Snowpiercer

500

This president attempted to install solar panels on the White House, only to have them immediately removed by the next president, Ronald Reagan

Who is Jimmy Carter

500

This system governs a large portion of the water movement and nutrient redistribution in the Atlantic, shielding us from natural disasters

What is the trans-Atlantic conveyor belt, or the AMOC

500

Often attributed as the first person to theorize that CO2 emissions would lead to a global warming, this Swedish Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist also linked these emissions to previous ice ages in 1896

Who is Arrhenius

500

What causes ice ages to be cyclical? 

What is long term changes in earths orbital patterns

500

This heady thriller portrays a world-ending blight that decreases breathable oxygen levels in the atmosphere, where humanity is doomed without the help of mysterious 4th dimensional beings

What is Interstellar