Greenhouse Gases
Climate
Weather
Climate Change
100

What is the thing that helps traps greenhouse gases to Earth?

What is the atmosphere.

100

What is climate?

What is the average weather condition for a specific area over a long period of time.

100

What is weather?

What is a minute by minute change of the conditions in the atmosphere/outside.

100

The "_________ effect" is when gas is trapped to increase the temperature of the Earth.

What is Greenhouse effect.

200

What are the 3 top greenhouse gases we discussed?

What is Carbon DIoxide, Nitrous Oxide and Methane.

200

Why is the climate in the areas closer to the equator hotter?

What is they experience more concentrated and direct heat from the Sun and usually experience it for longer than other areas.

200

How do you measure the temperature outside?

What is using Celsius or Fahrenheit. 

200

What is climate change?

What is the Earth's average temperature increasing over a long term period.

300

What is one way that Methane is released into the environment?

What is when fossil fuels are being extracted from the Earth. What is when farm animals digest their food. What is when organic materials (such as food waste) naturally decomposes.
300

Places that experience more moderate seasonal changes are around/close to where?

What is around the equator.

300
Explain how Canada is experiencing winter at the same time that Australia is experiencing summer?

What is at that moment, Canada is facing away from the Sun and getting less heat while Australia is facing the Sun and is receiving the heat making their climate warmer.

300

What is one natural cause of climate change?

What is the tilt of the Earth. What is the Earth's orbit around the Sun. What is natural disasters. What is the varying amount of heat we receive from the Sun.

400
When fertilizer is being used what happens in the process that allows nitrous oxide to be released?

What is the fertilizer mixes with the bacteria in the dirt to release nitrous oxide.

400

What are the two tropics that border the equator called?

What is the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.

400

What are the 2 things that allow seasons to naturally occur?

What is the tilt of the Earth and Earth's rotation around the Sun.
400

What have been effects of climate change?

What is rising ocean levels. What is loss of animal species. What is rising global temperatures. What is increasing amounts of extreme weather occurrences.

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