Climate Change
The country that emits the most carbon dioxide per person
What is United States?
A group that includes marine, freshwater, grassland, forest, desert, and cropland.
What are ecosystems effected by poaching?
A term coined from the Latin word meaning "poisonous."
What is Virus?
The biggest cause of sea level rise
What is melting ice?
True or False: the rate of demand is higher than the rate of replenishment of natural resources.
The country that produces the most total CO2 per year
What is China?
More than half the world's poaching happens here because of rare animals.
Where is Africa?
A cause in increasing the range of activity of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes?
What is average global temperature increase?
The greatest threats to coral reefs
What is Tourism/Destructive Fishing/Climate Change/Pollution/Toxins in the Water?
The cause of the depletion of natural resources
What is overconsumption?
One effect of Climate Change
What is _________? (ex. polar ice caps melting, rise in diseases, etc.)
They help sustain the natural balance of our ecosystems.
What are keystone species?
Uniquely successful at transmitting disease.
What is Arthropod/Insects?
Melting ice caps will affect Arctic Wildlife by
What is a food chain collapse nd lose of habitat?
Two types of resources
What are renewable and non-renewable resources?
A way to prevent climate change through transportation
What is biking/walking/taking the train?
They eat around 70 million insect that are harmful to human, but are the most poached animals in the world.
What is Pangolin?
An ideal breeding ground for virus modification and the emergence of infectious diseases.
What are sudden temperature changes?
OR
What are more frequent extreme weather?
Number of years until Rainforests no longer exist
What is 78 years?
Two natural resources in decline
What is ________? (Water, coal, oil, natural gas, fish, phosphorus)
3 ways Climate Change is affecting oceans
What is ________? (Ex. sea levels rising, dying animals, pollution in ocean, destruction of ecosystems, etc.)
On April 30, 2016, this country set fire to an estimated 105 tons of ivory to send a message to poachers.
Where is Kenya?
The destruction of this can bring back 18th and 19th centure diseases, especially near cemeteries where the victums were burned.
Percent of trees that have been cut down since humans began cutting them down
What is 46%?
What is using more renewable energy?