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Test Your Environmental Knowledge with ELS Friendsgiving Quiz!

Welcome to the ELS Friendsgiving Quiz, where you can challenge your understanding of environmental science and pop culture connections! This quiz covers a variety of engaging questions about climate change, animal adaptations, and more.

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15 Questions4 MinutesCreated by ExploringNature101

The axial tilt of the Earth is an important regulator of Earth’s climate (on timescales of tens of thousands of years); what would happen to Earth’s climate without the tilt?

Temperature contrasts between latitudes would grow more severe

Seasonal contrasts would grow more severe

Temperature contrasts between day and night would become more severe

The Earth’s average surface temperature would rise

John Travolta starred in the 1998 film a Civil Action, about an environmental lawyer who takes on an industrial polluter whose waste poisoned a number of children. In 2014, John Travolta also had a whoopsie-daisy moment when he mispronounced the name of famous Broadway Star Idina Menzel at the 2014 Oscars; what did he call her?

Adolf Dazzler

Delly Matterhorn

Adele Dazeem

Jesus Christ, Superstar

Predators often depend on camouflage to stalk and surprise their prey. Tigers are one such predator, yet their orange fur often stands out against the green often found in their habitats; what is the leading theory on the cause of this adaptation of color?

The orange creates a sharp contrast to its dark stripes, which helps disrupts its size and shape to the perception of its prey

Tigers as they stalk get low to the ground, which is often covered in dead leaves and other brownish foliage; the orange is more suited to this color and helps them camouflage

While tigers have techniques and stripes to help it hunt prey, its orange color actually evolved as a form of plumage; more vibrant oranges are seen as desirable to potential mates

The preferred prey of Tigers are blind to red and orange colors, making it hard for them to perceive the Tiger’s coat

What is the significance of black body radiation to Climate Change?

Black body radiation predicts what wavelengths of thermal radiation a body will likely emit based on its size; the Earth’s size leads it to emit radiation that greenhouse gases are able to absorb and trap

Black body radiation predicts the wavelengths of thermal radiation of a body that’s in equilibrium with its environment, based on its temperature. The Earth is heating up as a way to radiate more energy out and maintain its equilibrium

Black body radiation predicts what wavelengths of thermal radiation a body will likely emit based on its surface area; Earth’s surface area is such that when it emits energy it does so at a wavelength that green house gases can absorb

What is the key to the Earth’s geological regulation of its carbon dioxide concentrations in its atmosphere?

Dissolution of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into the oceans which then precipitates onto the ocean floor

Carbon dioxide is used up by the weathering reactions of carbonate minerals

The absorption of carbon dioxide by plant life, which in turn are buried and sedimented, trapping carbon underground

Carbon dioxide’s relatively density is such that it eventually escapes Earth’s atmosphere into space

In 2020, Colorado experienced the three largest fires in the states' history with more than 625,000 acres burned. Both the East Troublesome Fire and the Cameron Peak Fire caused significant damage to which Colorado park?

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

Mesa Verde

Rocky Mountain National Park

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

In 1932, Australian farmers returned from World War I only to be confronted with an entirely different kind of enemy. The Australian government went to “war” with which animal in an attempt to appease the farmers?

Emus

Dingos

Kangaroos

Rabbits

In environmental law, one contentious species to protect is wolves, but their threat to human lives, like other apex predators, can sometimes be overstated. Which other animal kills approximately the same number of humans per year as wolves do? (for reference, mosquitos kill approximately 1,000,000 people per year, and the freshwater snail kills approximately 10,000!)

Sharks (10 people per year)

Lions (100 people per year)

Elephant (100 people per year)

Cougars (27 fatal attacks in North America in the past 100 years)

Galapagos tortoises have one of the longest life expectancies of any species on the planet, frequently living over 100 years. By contrast, some mice species have a life expectancy of only 18 months! What might help explain this difference?

Scientists have observed a “bell curve” of size, where the smallest and largest animals on the plant tend to have lower life expectancies than more moderately sized species

Galapagos tortoises are picky eaters, and tend to only eat vegetables -- scientists now believe that vegan lifestyles help improve life expectancy

The Galapagos tortoise has an incredibly slow heart rate; scientists have observed a strong inverse correlation between the rate of an animal’s heart beat and its life expectancy

Galapagos tortoises have few natural predators; because they’re most vulnerable at young ages, their ability to reach adulthood without much fear of being eaten enables them to live long peaceful lives!

This species lives mainly in the seas around the Antarctic, is referred to as the “shark of the Antarctic,” and is often marketed in restaurants as Chilean Sea Bass due to its unfortunate name.

Orca

Penguins

Polar Bear

Toothfish

Cattle ranchers are concerned about their cattle mingling with this species for fear that the cattle will contract brucellosis, a disease that causes infertility, milk reduction, and weight loss, among other issues. Due to fear of the disease the US government killed herds of this species to prevent brucellosis from spreading to cattle.

Elk

Deer

Bison

Caribou

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