True or false, climate change is the same thing as Global Warming?
What is False
100
Where is melting sea ice becoming a big problem?
What is Canadian Arctic
100
True or false, the sun's energy has an affect on climate change?
True
100
These are all Greenhouse Gases:
a) water vapour, methane, carbon monoxide
b) water vapour, sulphate, carbon dioxide
c) water vapour, nitrous oxide, methane, carbon dioxide
c
100
What is our earth divided into?
Climate zones
200
What are the characteristics of weather?
What is weather is current conditions in specific and deals with shorter periods of time.
200
What is happening to people as a result of flooding?
People's homes are being wiped out along with communities as whole, making individuals and families homeless until they can find a place to live.
200
When does the earth get most of its energy and what does it create?
When it is closest to the sun, which results in higher temperatures.
200
Define what the Greenhouse Effect is:
Certain gases within the earth's atmosphere heat up from the sun and the earth's surface.
200
What is a climatograph?
A graph of climate data for a specific region.
300
What has the earth's past climate change been like?
What is some changes have been dramatic and occurred millions of years ago, there have been a lot of ups and downs the temperature.
300
Wy are there more desserts in our earth?
Temperatures are increasing and rainfall is decreasing which results in a temporary drought.
300
What does the earth's tilt cause?
Yearly pattern of changes in climate. (seasons)
300
What has to happen first in greenhouse effect?
Solar energy enters the atmosphere.
300
What is the area considered that is between the north and south pole? And what are they?
Polar zones, they are cold temperature areas that are convered in ice all year round.
400
Why is our earth experiencing more sever storms?
What is the earth's atmosphere warms and so do the oceans, this means more water-based storms.
400
What would eventually happen if climate change continued to effect organisms for a long period of time?
It would force organisms out of their habitat or die because they can't adapt to new places or climate change, so therefore the population would decrease.
400
What is a heat sink?
What is anything that can absorb and store heat.
400
After solar energy enters the atmosphere, what happens?
The earth's surface absorbs and radiates some of this energy.
400
Name the Climate zones:
Northern Poler Zone, Northern Temperate Zone, Tropical Zone and Southern Zone.