By: chronic sublime
Easy for me, living in the same city all my life and being a social studies/geography teacher. Plus, with a drought in several water catchments in my area of the state, the environment is very much a...
View ArticleBy: UbuRoivas
For the life of me, I can't imagine why anybody other than a surfer or a fisherman would ever have any cause to know or care when the next high tide is due.
View ArticleBy: sfenders
Well, I found it interesting. Reminded me to learn more about the different types of soil. I have what I think of as good enough answers for 26 of 30. It seems like it's well on the way to being a test...
View ArticleBy: -harlequin-
we are all part of, and dependent upon, a lot more systems than the ecological ones - and we can't all be fully knowledgeable about all of them. But I think we should strive to be mostly knowledgeable...
View ArticleBy: -harlequin-
No related occupation, but 25/30 simply from having spent about twenty years in the same city. Much lower score for the city I recently moved too though. If, like me, your job is nothing to do with any...
View ArticleBy: bookish
WhipSmart, there's really nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition. It's one of those nonsensical "grammar" rules based on the idea that English should conform to the grammer of Latin....
View ArticleBy: String
I felt a bit bad at only being able to answer about half of them - and the various solar questions were gimmes from my recent work on DaylightMap. But then I too started thinking that they should range...
View ArticleBy: elendil71
I answered all of them quite easily, but similar to other posters, I do environmental consulting with a background in anthropology, and it's part of my job to know such things. While recognizing that a...
View ArticleBy: jlkr
23/30, 26/34. But then, I grew up on a farm, and currently live 40 miles west of where I grew up. The biggest problem I had was the watershed question, because it depends upon which direction you go,...
View ArticleBy: salvia
How many days is the growing season here (from frost to frost)? What do I need nature for? I get my food at restaurants. [kidding]
View ArticleBy: WhipSmart
Where does the pollution in your air come from? A place where they don't end their sentences in prepositions.
View ArticleBy: hydrophonic
Stand in the place where you live/Now face north/Think about direction/Wonder why you haven't before
View ArticleBy: Surfurrus
Living on an island requires understanding eco limits (trash, sewage, water, extinction, energy, history, etc.) Surfing, fishing, water-life require knowing tides, moons, sunsets, storms, etc. This...
View ArticleBy: jacquilynne
I could answer about half of these for my childhood home, and almost none of them for my current home. I guess living in a big city instead of a tiny town, I'm simply far more detached from stuff like...
View ArticleBy: buggzzee23
29) Where is the nearest wilderness? When was the last time a fire burned through it? This one was just too easy for me. We fled SoCal's Sawtooth Complex fire day before yesterday and are watching the...
View ArticleBy: hoverboards don't work on water
... which is a bit like saying "Reality is a declining force." Which, frankly, is true! (Although I initially meant only that the weather, water table, tides, moonphases, food supply and local flora...
View ArticleBy: fluffycreature
... nature is a declining force. Yup, but someone forgot to tell nature....
View ArticleBy: funambulist
Where does the pollution in your air come from? From all round? I mean, I didn't know urban pollution was supposed to travel in circumscribed currents.
View ArticleBy: green herring
I answered almost all easily, but I work in water engineering so it's my job to know these things. As hoverboards hints at, I wouldn't be able to answer questions about some other systems quite so...
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