Climate Change Basics
This term describes the long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns on Earth.
Answer: What is climate change?
These two frozen features are melting, which directly causes the sea level to rise
Answer: What are glaciers and sea ice?
According to this theory, all matter is made up of these "tiny" things.
Answer: What are particles?
These specific gases trap energy and reflect it back to Earth's surface, heating the planet.
Answer: What are greenhouse gases?
This method of heat transfer requires direct contact and occurs through particle vibrations.
Answer: What is conduction?
While climate change can be natural, it has accelerated since the 1800s due to this specific type of human activity.
Answer: What is the burning of fossil fuels?
Warmer oceans have led to an increase in these two specific types of water-related natural disasters.
Answer: What are hurricanes and flooding?
Particles are always in motion, meaning they possess this specific type of energy.
Answer: What is kinetic energy?
Name two naturally occurring greenhouse gases mentioned in the slideshow.
Answer: What are carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, or ozone?
This type of material, such as metal or the human body, allows energy to flow through it easily.
Answer: What is a conductor?
Name two of the three main examples of fossil fuels mentioned in the slideshow.
Answer: What are coal, oil, and gas?
Extreme heat on land can directly result in these two dangerous events that threaten forests and water supplies.
Answer: What are droughts and wildfires?
Adding energy to matter has this effect on the speed of its particles.
Answer: What is making them move faster?
Energy from the sun passes through the atmosphere and is converted into this by the Earth.
Answer: What is heat?
This is the term for when 100g of a substance changes by 1 degree Celsius.
Answer: What is specific heat capacity?
True or False: Climate change is strictly a man-made phenomenon and does not occur naturally.
Answer: What is False? (The info states it can be natural, but is accelerated by humans).
Agricultural yield is projected to change in Africa and in Canada in this way between now and 2080.
Answer: What is Africa will decline and Canada will increase?
Heat (energy) usually has this effect on the amount of empty space between particles.
Answer: What is increasing the space?
These two man-made greenhouse gases are often used as coolants.
Answer: What are CFCs and HFCs?
This method of heat transfer occurs through infrared energy waves and does not require a fluid or contact.
Answer: What is radiation?
Human activities have caused a significant increase in this measurement "year over year," signaling a problem.
Answer: What is the average temperature?
The salinity of the ocean changed due to climate change in this way.
What is it has declined due to glaciers and sea ice melting?
This exists between particles in all matter, regardless of the state.
Answer: What is empty space?
While some energy is trapped by the atmosphere, some of the sun's energy does this to prevent Earth from overheating.
Answer: What is reflect back into space?
Which substance has a lower heat capacity (meaning it heats up faster): Water or Ethanol?
Answer: What is Ethanol? (1000J raised it 4 degrees, while it only raised water 2.4 degrees).