Climate
This is an element of climate in which precipitation falls from the sky?
What is rain, snow, or hail
Cutting down forests is called this.
What is deforestation?
What city in Italy is slowly flooding from rising sea levels?
What is Venice?
What do solar panels use to make electricity?
What is sunlight?
True or False: Climate change only affects animals, not people.
What is false?
True or false: Climate is the same in every country.
What is false — different places have different climates?
Burning coal, oil, and gas is called burning what?
What is fossil fuels?
What do we call the Earth getting warmer over time?
What is global warming?
Name another renewable energy source.
What is solar/wind/hydro/geothermal?
True or False: Planting trees helps fight climate change.
What is true?
What do we call the average weather of a place over a long time?
What is climate?
What gas do cows release that contributes to climate change?
What is methane?
Melting of this causes polar bears to lose their homes.
Arctic Ice
What 3-word phrase means “use less, reuse things, recycle”?
What is reuse, reduce, recycle?
______ is flooding because of rising sea levels.
Venice or Bangladesh
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What is weather is short-term, climate is long-term (~30 years)?
What gas do cars and factories release that traps heat in the atmosphere?
What is carbon dioxide?
When land gets too dry and crops can't grow, what is this called?
What is drought?
Buying only what you need is fighting against what issue?
What is overconsumption
True or False: Throwing away food doesn’t affect the environment.
What is False — food waste produces methane gas.
These are the four main elements of climate (name two).
What are temperature, wind, precipitation, humidity?
What is the name of the gases (like CO₂ and methane) that trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere and cause the planet to warm?
What are greenhouse gases?
People forced to leave their homes because of floods or droughts are called what?
What are climate refugees?
This type of shopping harms our enviroment
What is fast fashion
What is one way YOU can use less energy at home
Walk to school, turn off lights and water, recycling/composting.