Global Warming
What is global warming?
What is the Earth's rising temperature.
This is where scientists have discovered a large weakened area in the ozone layer.
What is Antarctica.
What in the ocean is a number one cause of rising sea levels?
What are icebergs.
An example of destruction of habitat which is centered around trees.
What is deforestation.
The more the population grows, the more __________ get used up.
What are resources/nonrenewable resources.
What causes the most global warming today?
What is burning fossil fuels.
What do many factories use to decrease air pollution in their smokestacks?
What is scrubbers.
How deep would the oceans be if all the ice in the world melted?
What is 70 meters or 230 feet.
This habitat is being destroyed by humans because of littering and pollution.
What is the ocean?
What is the name for a type of air pollution that reduces visibility and is harmful to human health and the environment, may contain smoke and other types of toxic emissions from factories, planes, cars and power plants.
What is smog.
How can individuals help to fight global warming?
What is people can reduce energy use, recycle, use public transport, and support renewable energy sources.
A reddish-brown gas that causes the sharp, sweet smell of car exhaust.
What is Nitrogen Oxide
What is the average rise of sea level per year?
What is 3 mm.
What are the four major causes of habitat loss?
What is human activities, including urbanization, agricultural expansion, and resource extraction.
This is when an urban area has higher average temperatures than nearby rural areas, due to more concrete, pavement, & roofing materials.
What is heat island effect.
What are some signs of global warming in daily life?
What is more heatwaves, stronger storms, unusual weather patterns, and changes in plant/animal behavior
The clean air act of 1970 charged the EPA with monitoring six criteria air pollutants. Which pollutant was not and is still not part of the law?
What is Carbon Dioxide.
How many islands disappeared between 2016-2017?
What is 3.
Approximately how many species have died from habitat loss?
What is 50,000 species become extinct each year from habitat loss?
How can individual lifestyle changes (reducing carbon footprint) influence larger climate trends?
What is eating less meat, walking instead of driving, and wasting less energy, reduce the total greenhouse gases trapping heat in the atmosphere.
What is a positive feedback loop in climate change?
What is the process that makes global warming happen faster by increasing heat in the system.
What are the five main primary pollutants?
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Nitrogen oxides/nitric oxide (NOx), Sulfur dioxide (SO2), Particulate matter(PM)
Name the six solutions.
Building seawalls, using beaches as barriers, raising roads, building stormwater pumps, upgrading sewage systems, and creating natural infrastructure.
What is the difference between habitat loss and habitat degradation?
what is habitat loss refers to the complete destruction of an environment, while degradation refers to the environment becoming less suitable for species due to pollution or overuse.
How do we distinguish between natural climate variations and climate change driven by human activities?
What is natural climate variations occur over long, cyclical periods through factors like orbital shifts, while human-driven climate change is distinguished by the unprecedentedly rapid acceleration of greenhouse gases and rising temperatures