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This is the North Carolina state bird
What is the cardinal?
True or False: Wetlands are only located near the main waterways in North Carolina, such as the ocean.
False! Wetlands are all across North Carolina.
This is the primary federal law that protects our nation's rivers, lakes, coasts, streams, and wetlands.
What is the Clean Water Act?
This local organization in Raleigh has done important work to help restore wetlands like Walnut Creek.
What is Partners for Environmental Justice (PEJ)?
The EcoVillage at NC State is located in this hall.
What is Bragaw Hall?
This carnivorous plant is native to North Carolina.
What is the Venus Flytrap?
List two (of the many) benefits that wetlands provide to the community.
What is flood mitigation, biodiversity of wildlife, natural water purifiers, economic benefits, etc.?
This US federal agency's mission is to protect human health and the environment by setting and enforcing environmental regulations and standards.
What is the EPA?
A lack of access to clean air has been linked to this common respiratory disease, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities.
What is asthma?
This is the closest wetland to our campus. (Hint: It's located on campus)
What is Lake Raleigh?
This is the North Carolina state flower
What is the dogwood?
Wetlands help combat climate change by storing large amounts of this greenhouse gas in their soils.
What is carbon dioxide?
This 2023 Supreme Court decision resulted in the rollback of wetlands protections under the Clean Water Act. Hint: ___ vs ___
What is Sackett vs. EPA?
This was the first NC town founded by Black men and women and is currently located in a major NC floodplain; this means residents experience constant damage from flooding and high water.
What is Freedom Hill?
This NC State building was the first to achieve LEED Platinum certification on campus.
What is Hunt Library?
NC State is located in this river basin.
What is the Neuse River Basin?
This common wetland critter is known for their slender bodies and webbed feet, playful, sociable nature, excellent swimming abilities, and their role as apex predators in aquatic ecosystems.
What are otters?
This company originally promised to cut carbon emissions by 70% by 2030. Now, SB 261 will exempt this company from needing to achieve any carbon-reduction goals until 2050.
What is Duke Energy?
This North Carolina county is historically significant in environmental justice due to protests against PCB dumping in the 1980s.
What is Warren County?
This creek runs through the campus and has been the focus of a restoration project, creating a safe and accessible outdoor teaching laboratory.
What is Rocky Branch?
North Carolina's geography is characterized by three distinct regions, name two.
What are the Piedmont Plateau, coastal plain, and Appalachian mountains?
North Carolina has this many acres of wetlands (in millions).
What is 4.2?
This group voted to take away protections for millions of acres of wetlands in North Carolina.
What is the NC General Assembly?
This tool, launched by the EPA, maps environmental and demographic indicators to identify communities at risk of environmental injustice.
What is EJScreen?
These are the two main energy sources NC State uses.
What are natural gas and electricity?