Climate Effects
The greenhouse effect can cause global warming
What can the greenhouse effect do?
What things make up climate?
What are temperature and precipitation?
What are particulates?
Greenhouse gases absorb infrared radiation to heat up Earth.
What do greenhouse gases do?
Global warming can melt ice lands, glaciers, cause more heat inflicted diseases, raise sea levels, and reduce crops.
What can global warming do?
Weather conditions in an area over a long time
What is climate?
A long period of cooling which ice sheets spread beyond polar regions
What is an ice age?
Burning fossil fuels and coal cause the increase in carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas.
What causes the increase in carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas?
Greenhouse gases get in the air from deforestation and burning fossil fuels.
How do greenhouse gases get in the air?
Angular distance in degrees north and south from equator
What is latitude?
The process of gases absorbing and radiating heat and energy as heat back to Earth
What is the greenhouse effect?
The most common greenhouse gas in the atmosphere released by humans
What is carbon dioxide?
Deforestation means carbon dioxide holding trees are burned, and the gases from the burning fossil fuels get into the air.
How does deforestation affect the greenhouse affect?
An area's surface features combined
What is topography?
A gradual increase in average global temperature
What is global warming?
Gases that absorb the infrared radiation from the Earth
What are greenhouse gases?
Some examples of burning fossil fuel are driving, smoking, and burning coals and gas.
What are examples of burning fossil fuel?
Currents on the surface of the ocean
What are surface currents?
Mathematical formulas to describe how different variables affect Earth's climate.
What are climate models?
Natural fuels formed from the remains of living plants and animals
What are fossil fuels?