Transcript Semester 2

HUMAN IMPACT
JEOPARDY #1
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What’s the
Cause?
Vocab
How do
we help?
What is it?
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What’s the Cause?
100
Depletion of Ozone layer
A: What is release of CFC’s that
destroy ozone ?
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What’s the Cause?
200
Dead zones
A: What is runoff of fertilizers and
animal waste?
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What’s the Cause?
300
Eagles laying eggs with fragile shells
A: What is DDT in food chain ?
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What’s the Cause?
400
Acid rain
A: What is burning fossil fuels puts
nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides in
atmosphere ?
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What’s the Cause?
500
Global warming
A: What is increase in greenhouse gases
caused by burning fossil fuels; methane
from decomposition and animals;
CFC’s?
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Vocabulary
100
Destruction of forests
A: What is deforestation?
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Vocabulary
200
Farming strategy in which large fields are
planted with a single crop variety year
after year
A: What is MONOCULTURE?
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Vocabulary
300
The sum total of the variety of organisms in
the biosphere; It is a measure of the health
of an ecosystem
A: What is BIODIVERSITY ?
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Vocabulary
400
Plants or animals that have migrated or been
introduced into places where they are not native
and for which there are no natural predators or
parasites to control their population
A: What is an INVASIVE SPECIES?
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Vocabulary
500
Increasing concentration a harmful
substance in organisms at higher trophic
levels in a food chain or web
A: What is BIOLOGICAL
MAGNIFICATION ?
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How do we help?
100
Ozone depletion
A: What is Montreal Protocol
reduced the production and use
of CFC’s ?
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How do we help?
200
Soil erosion
A: What is “No-till” & contour
farming; stop deforestation?
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How do we help?
300
Dead zones
A: What is reduce runoff from
fertilizers and animal waste?
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How do we help?
400
Name an organization that helps
the environment
A: What is EPA, Greenpeace, National
Wildlife Federation; Audubon Society;
World Wildlife fund; Sierra Club . . .
there are many more.
How do we help?
500
GLOBAL WARMING
A: What is
Anything that reduces the use of fossil
fuels (conserves water or conserves
electricity)?
There are millions of things we can do!
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What is it?
100
Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species (CITES)
A: What is a law that bans trade in products
that come from endangered species
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What is it?
200
EPA
A: What is ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY the governmental body whose job it is to
monitor and enforce environmental regulations,
provide education on environmental issues, conduct
environmental research, and provide funding for
environmental programs?
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What is it?
300
DDT
A: What is a pesticide used to kill mosquitos
which was banned after it was discovered that
it concentrated in birds of prey and caused
them to lay eggs with fragile shells?
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What is it?
400
OZONE
A: What is an atmospheric gas (O3) that
protects us from the sun’s ultraviolet rays?
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What is it?
500
A process caused by a combination of poor
farming practices, overgrazing, and drought
that turns productive land in areas with dry
climates into deserts
A: What is desertification ?
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Miscellaneous
100
A necessity of life which can NOT
be replenished by natural means; Ex:
fossil fuels
A: What is a
NONRENEWABLE
RESOURCE?
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Miscellaneous
200
Environmental problem the
Kyoto Accord is aimed at
helping
A: What is GLOBAL
WARMING?
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Miscellaneous
300
Unique ecosystems that are most
threatened and where the concentration
of money and efforts could produce the
most results for our $
A: What are biodiversity HOT
SPOTS?
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Miscellaneous
400
Give an example of an
invasive species
A: What are rabbits in Australia,
Leafy spurge and zebra mussels in
South Dakota?
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Miscellaneous
500
Woman scientist who wrote “Silent
Spring” which led to the ban of DDT
and the start of the environmental
movement in the 1970’s
A: Who is Rachel Carson?
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