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Jeopardy

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• Mr. Ping

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What is Mexico City?
The most populated city in the world.

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What is global warming?
The gradual increase in the average temperature
of Earths surface.

• 1,2

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What are fossil fuels?
These formed long ago underground from rotting
plants and animals.

• 1,3

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Who is Yuri Gagarin?
He was the first human in space.

• 1,4

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What is a megacity?
A region with 10 million people or more.

• 2,1

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What is deforestation?
Cutting down forest to grow crops.

• 2,2

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What is Chernobyl?
This nuclear power plant suffered a terrible
accident and had a meltdown.

• 2,3

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What is the International Space Station?
This replaced the space station Mir.

• 2,4

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What is the status of women?
Many demographers believe that this affects the
rate of population growth.

• 3,1

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What is desertification?
Farmers plow fields, animals overgraze the land
topsoil becomes loose, dries up, and blows away.

• 3,2

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What are Iguaçu and Niagara Falls?
These are great sources of renewable energy from
waterfalls.

• 3,3

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What is the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA)?
They sent the first humans to walk on the moon.

• 3,4

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What is zero population growth?
Just enough babies are born to balance out
population loss.

• 4,1

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What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
This agency serves as a watchdog for the
environment.

• 4,2

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What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC)?
The worlds biggest oil producers cut oil
production and formed this in 1973.

• 4,3

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What is the Human Genome Project?
An international effort to find the more than
30,000 human genes.

• 4,4

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Who is Mother Teresa?
Who said, Do not wait for leaders do it alone,
person to person.

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Who is Rachel Carson?
She said, Early morning are strangely silent
where once they were filled with the beauty of
bird song.

• 5,2

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What are solar, water, and wind energy?
These are all renewable resources.

• 5,3

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Who is Flossie Wong-Staal?
She helped lead the way in AIDS research.

• 5,4