Carbon/ Carbon Cycle
Carbon is considered a "building block" for these
What is life/living things?
Term used to describe the warming of a planet due to trapped gases in the atmosphere
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Word used to describe short term changes in the state of the atmosphere
What is weather?
What is deforestation?
Type of resource that is replenished by natural processes
What is renewable?
Form of carbon that is most commonly found in the atmosphere
What is CO2?
Term used to describe the gases that trap heat in Earth's atmosphere
What are Greenhouse Gases?
Word used to describe long term trends in Earth's atmosphere
What is climate?
Term to describe droughts, heatwaves, and intense hurricanes - often caused by climate change
What is extreme weather?
Type of organisms that need to take in carbon to survive
What are plants/photosynthetic?
Name of the greenhouse gas that is released by cows and landfill sites
What is methane?
What is interglacial?
Term used to describe the effect of sea and land ice melting in oceans due to climate change
What is sea level rise?
One type of renewable energy source
What is solar/hydro/geothermal/wind?
Two ways in which all organisms release carbon into the atmosphere naturally
What are respiration and decomposition?
Earth would be like this for living things if we had no greenhouse gases
What is too cold?
Evidence for Earth's climate history
What are rocks, ice, and fossils?
Impact climate change has on organisms/species
What is migration changes/coral bleaching/habitat loss/extinction?
Type of energy source that captures heat energy from deep underground
What is geothermal energy?
Largest carbon sink on Earth
What is the ocean?
Term used to describe the overall impact of the greenhouse effect, causing things such as melting ice, sea levels rising, ocean acidification, and extreme weather
What is climate change?
Period of time in the 1750s-1860s where developed nations built machines and expanded their industries rapidly, causing increase in fossil fuel use and changes to Earth's climate
What is the Industrial Revolution?
What are oil, gas, and coal?
Two things you can personally do to reduce carbon footprint
What are eat local foods / turn off lights / eat less red meat / reuse / recycle / electric car / shop less / use less heat or AC?