Whole Therapy Presents: Earth Day Trivia!

What book helped launch the modern environmental movement, and led to the widespread ban of DDT?

The End of Nature

Silent Spring

Last Child in the Woods

Earth in Balance

What 1997 global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases was signed by virtually every country in the world except for the United States?

Kyoto Protocol

Millennium Summit

Reykjavik Summit

Oslo Accord

What does 350, the 'Magic Number' of climate change, refer to?

350 million kiloliters of ocean water

350 million megawatts of energy from carbon dioxide-free sources

350 million hybrid/electric cars on the road globally

350 parts per million of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere

How many species in Canada are on the "Endangered Species" list?

358

989

668

160

What international agreement set the groundwork for phasing out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other substances known to deplete the ozone layer?

EMEP Protocol

Multi-Effect Protocol

Montreal Protocol

Geneva Protocol

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet poses an immediate threat to the survival of which animal?

Penguin

Orca Whale

Polar Bear

Arctic Tern

How much of our air pollution comes from motor vehicles, like cars and trucks?

20%

70%

30%

50%

Canada is home to what percentage of the earth's forests?

10%

30%

20%

As only the second country in the world to have a Ministry of Environment, in what year was Environment Canada established?

1965

1997

1971

1980

What is an environmentally sustainable behaviour?

Cycling to Work

Refusing Single-Use Plastics

Reducing Meat Consumption

All of the Above

Whole Therapy Presents: Earth Day Trivia!

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