HUMAN IMPACT JEOPARDY 1 Slide show by Kelly

HUMAN IMPACT JEOPARDY #1 Slide show by Kelly Riedell/Brookings Biology Image from: http: //www. verslo. is/HOME/Raungreinar/lif/Itarefni/Umhverfisfr/GLOBAL-WARMING. GIF

What’s the Cause? Vocab How do we help? What is it? Miscellaneous 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500

What’s the Cause? 100 Depletion of Ozone layer A: What is release of CFC’s that destroy ozone ? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

What’s the Cause? 200 Dead zones A: What is runoff of fertilizers and animal waste? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

What’s the Cause? 300 Eagles laying eggs with fragile shells A: What is DDT in food chain ? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

What’s the Cause? 400 Acid rain A: What is burning fossil fuels puts nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides in atmosphere ? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

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? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

Vocabulary 100 Destruction of forests A: What is deforestation? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

Vocabulary 200 Farming strategy in which large fields are planted with a single crop variety year after year A: What is MONOCULTURE? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

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 ? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

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? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

Vocabulary 500 Increasing concentration a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or web A: What is BIOLOGICAL MAGNIFICATION ? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

How do we help? 100 Ozone depletion A: What is Montreal Protocol reduced the production and use of CFC’s ? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

How do we help? 200 Soil erosion A: What is “No-till” & contour farming; stop deforestation? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

How do we help? 300 Dead zones A: What is reduce runoff from fertilizers and animal waste? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

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! S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

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 S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

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? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

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? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

What is it? 400 OZONE A: What is an atmospheric gas (O 3) that protects us from the sun’s ultraviolet rays? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

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 ? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

Image from: http: //io. uwinnipeg. ca/~simmons/16 cm 05/1116/16 anim 3. htm Miscellaneous 100 A necessity of life which can NOT be replenished by natural means; Ex: fossil fuels A: What is a NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

Miscellaneous 200 Environmental problem the Kyoto Accord is aimed at helping A: What is GLOBAL WARMING? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

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? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

Miscellaneous 400 Give an example of an invasive species A: What are rabbits in Australia, Leafy spurge and zebra mussels in South Dakota? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review

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? S 2 C 06 Jeopardy Review