| Question | Answer |
| Senator Gaylord Nelson organized the first ___________ on April 20, 1970. | Earth Day
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Under this president, the EPA was established along with OSHA, Resource Recovery Act (regulates waste disposal) and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 being passed. | Richard Nixon
| This biologist-turned author published Tragedy of the Commons. | Garrett Hardin
| In 1962, this biologist-turned-author wrote Silent Spring to bring awareness to the effects of pesticides such as DDT on air, water, and wildlife. | Rachel Carson
| He wrote Sand's County Almanac; a preservationist, he said that the role of humans should be to protect nature not to conquer it. | Aldo Leopold
| His goal was to bring the country out of the Great Depression; established the Civilian Conservation Corps, built dams, the Soil conservation Act of 1935. | FDR
| In the early 1900's, she focused their efforts on improving public health conditions,industrial medicine and pollution prevention. | Alice Hamilton
| An early conservationist, this author wrote Life In the Woods and Walden about nature and the wild species in his native Massachusetts. | Henry David Thoreau
| An early conservationist, this author wrote Man and Nature which explored the connection between the rise and fall of civilizations and their resource usage (and misuse) | George Perkins Marsh
| Deeply spiritual environmentalist, leader of the preservationist movement, contributed to establishing Yosemite National Park - founder of the Sierra Club | John Muir
| First chief of the US Forest Service - Father of American conservationism | Gifford Pinchot
| President who preserved 150 National Parks;26th President, his term called “the golden age of conservation”, U.S. Forest Service was established | Teddy Roosevelt
| Deeply spiritual environmentalist, leader of the preservationist movement, contributed to establishing Yosemite National Park - founder of the Sierra Club | John Muir
| In 1976, it was discovered that toxic chemicals illegally buried by Hooker Chemical Corp. were leaking into homes, groundwater, and playgrounds here. | Love Canal, NY
| The only accident at a nuclear power plant in the U.S. occurred in 1979 here. | Three Mile Island, PA
| In 1989, this had an accident and in Prince William Sound, Alaska. | Exxon Valdez
| In 1986, a tragic explosion at a nuclear power plant here left thyroid and other cancers in its wake. | Chernobyl |
