Ecosystems
This term describes all the living and nonliving things interacting in a specific environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
This term refers to the gradual increase in Earth’s average temperature due to human activities.
What is Global Warming?
This is the main cause of global warming, resulting from burning coal, oil, and gas.
What is Greenhouse Gasses.
This greenhouse gas is released when humans burn fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas.
What is CO2?
This type of energy is produced by the sun
What is Solar Energy?
These organisms produce their own food using sunlight, forming the base of the food chain.
What is a Producer?
This invisible gas, produced by burning fossil fuels, is the main contributor to climate change.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
This layer of gases traps heat in the Earth’s atmosphere, leading to higher temperatures.
What is The Greenhouse affect?
This powerful greenhouse gas is released by cows during digestion and from landfills.
What is Methane?
This type of energy is produced through the earths internal heat
What is Geothermal?
This type of ecosystem can be found underwater and includes coral reefs and kelp forests
What is an aquatic Ecosystem?
Melting of these massive ice formations is causing sea levels to rise.
What are glaciers or ice sheets?
The Arctic is experiencing this effect of global warming faster than most other regions.
What is faster ice melting?
These gases trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere, causing the planet to warm.
What is Green House Gasses?
This type of energy is produced through a windmill
What is Air Energy?
This process describes the way energy moves from one organism to another through eating.
What is a food chain?
These powerful weather events are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change.
What are Hurricanes?
One major consequence of global warming is the increase in these long periods without rain.
What are water droughts?
This human-made greenhouse gas is found in air conditioners and refrigerators.
What is Chlorofluorocarbons?
This type of energy is produced by waves
What is Wave Energy?
This term refers to the role or job an organism has in its ecosystem, including how it gets food and interacts with others.
What is a Niche?
This international agreement, signed in 2015, aims to limit global warming to below 2°C.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This process involves the release of greenhouse gases.
What is Combustion?
This greenhouse gas is naturally found in the atmosphere and also released from fertilizers.
What is Nitrous Oxide?
This type of energy is produced by dams and infrastructure
What is Hydro Energy?