Natural Factors
Temperatures are generally hotter the closer a city is to this line in the middle of the globe.
What is the equator?
Driving to school in a combustion engine car will produce this greenhouse gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
Methane produced by expanding landfills can be the impact if we fail to follow these three Rs.
What are Re-Use, Reduce and Re-cycle?
Burning gasoline in the engine of a car producing carbon dioxide
What is combustion?
If sea levels continue to rise, what happens to San Francisco?
What is local flooding?
These animals produce methane (a greenhouse gas) -- go vegetarian!
What are cows?
This form of transport reduces greenhouse gas emissions if many people use it
What is public transportation?
Coal-fired plants burn carbon to heat steam that powers the turbines that produce electricity and this greenhouse gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
People who are afraid of rising sea levels are likely to do this.
Move to the center of the country
"sea level" is one way to refer to this natural driver of regional climate
what is "Latitude"?
What is coal?
San Francisco will offer you $1000 to switch to this vehicle.
What is an e-bike?
Plants take water, sunlight and carbon dioxide and produce sugar and oxygen
What is photosynthesis?
When there is little or no rain, San Franciscans experience these effects.
What are drought or fires?
Both the duration of the day and angle of the sunlight hitting the earth can limit the heating effect here.
What is the North (or South) Pole
(or Alaska)
Cattle ranching impacts climate in these two ways.
What is cutting down forests and methane produced by the cows?
They say "defending the planet starts at home" because you can start by doing this.
What is turn your water heater down? or Insulate!
Carbon compounds accumulate in the atmosphere, blocking solar radiation from bouncing back out into space
What is the greenhouse effect?
San Franciscans experience hot temperatures and poor air quality in parts of the city where there are fewer of these.
What are plants and trees?
These natural features (also called 'carbon sinks') can impact regional climate because they consume excess carbon dioxide
What are forests, soils and the ocean?
Chloroflourocarbons and Sulfur Hexaflouride are used in the production of these essential electronic items.
What are computer chips?
What are two clean sources of electricity generation?
Wind and Solar
This scientific process converts food waste into fertilizer
What is composting?
Increased migration and displacement of people is the result of this global trend.
What are rising global temperatures?