The Amazing Wangari Maathai Quiz

 Wangari was the first female professor ever in her home country of Canada.

In the 1980s, the Kenyan government supported Wangari in many ways.

Wangari's program encouraged women to plant _______________.

45 representatives from __________African countries travelled to Kenya over the next three years to learn from Wangari.

Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in ______in response to the environmental concerns raised by rural Kenyan women.

Mr. Thomassen things Wangari Maathai is truly amazing.

Wangari received the _________________ for "converting the Kenyan ecological debate into mass action for reforestation."

In 1977 Wangari started a movement aimed at stopping _______________ that was threatening the lives of people in Kenya.

Wangari authored a total of ____ books.

Mr. Thomassen thinks all of you can have a hugely wonderful impact on this world!

Wangari formed a partnership with the _______________Forestry Society,

Wangari was the first female scholar from East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate (in biology).

Maathai became one of some _______Kenyans selected to study in the United States in September 1960.

Between 1901 and 2018, only ___ Nobel Prize awards were given to women, while 852 Nobel Prize awards were given to men.

Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

While fighting for democracy in her country, Wangari was arrested.

It took three days for the police to get into her home and arrest her.

The Green Belt Movement spread to other African countries, and contributed to the planting of over _____________ trees.

Wangari was born in ______________, Kenya

Wangari earned a Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, and Ph.D.

Wangari's movement was called the __________ __________ movement.

In Atchison, Kansas (Mount St. Scholastica College), Wangari majored in biology, with minors in ____________and German.