Earth Facts
Global Warming
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100
The Earth is surrounded by a layer of gases called what?
What is the atmosphere
100
How can earth's forests affect temperatures?
The forests take in CO2 and release oxygen therefore keeping the temperatures balanced.
100
This gas adds more warmth to the atmosphere than any other gas.
What is CO2
100
Name one thing that is happening/will happen due to global warming.
Rising sea levels, species loss, increased disease, flooding, drought, melting glaciers, ect.
100

This dam produces enough hydroelectric power to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, California, and Arizona. 

What is the Hoover Dam

200
What percentage of the Earth's surface is water?
What is 70%
200
The temperature rises because the sun’s heat and light is trapped in the earth’s atmosphere. What is the name for this occurrence?
What is the greenhouse effect
200
What is one human cause to global warming?
What is pollution, mining, cattle rearing, deforestation, population, ect.
200

The average American throws out more than how many pounds of garbage each year? a) 800

b) 1600 c) 1200 d) 500

The average American throws out more 1,600 pounds of garbage each year!

200

What is an area of land where any groundwater underneath of it or precipitation that falls on it drains into one river, basin, or sea called?

What is a watershed

300
What is the largest rain forest on Earth?
What is the Amazon rainforest
300
Scientists predict that Arctic summers could be ice free by what year? a) 2030 b) 2040 c) 2050 d) 2012
What is 2040 or sooner
300

What arctic animal could be extinct in 50 years due to the loss of habitat because of climate change?

What are the polar bears!

300
A new study suggests that global warming could threaten one-fourth of the world's plant and vertebrate animal species with extinction by what year? a) 2035 b) 2050 c) 2060 c) 3000
What is 2050
300

What country consumes the most energy per capita?

What is China!

400
What word describes the clearing of Earth's forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land.
What is deforestation. Deforestation has many negative effects on the environment, but the most dramatic impact is a loss of habitat for millions of species. 70% of Earth’s land animals and plants live in forests, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes.
400
Name three ways you can help prevent global warming.
Plant trees, turn off the lights and electronics when you're not using them, reduce, reuse, recycle, take shorter showers, bike, walk or take the bus to school. There are many thing we as a school can do to help the environment!
400
This industry is the leader in damaging our ozone layer with the product they produce.
What is the gas or oil industry.
400
If the Greenland Ice Dome or the West Antarctic ice shelf melted how much would it raise the water levels WORLDWIDE? a) 18-20 feet c) 20-22 feet c) 50 feet d) 2 feet
Between 18 and 20 feet! Miami would be underwater, Amsterdam would vanish and in Bangladesh 60 million people would lose their homes.
400

What are the two natural processes that emit pollution into the air?

What are volcanoes and forest fires

500
The air on earth consists mostly of what two gases?
What are nitrogen and oxygen
500
How many deaths per year does the World Health Organization attribute to climate change? a) 67,000 b) 100,000 c) 150,000
What is c) 150,000 global deaths
500
How many tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere every single day? a) 10 million tons b) 550,000 tons c) 70 million tons d) 80 million tons
What is 70 million tons.
500
What percent of world's greenhouse gases are emitted by the United States? a) 30.3 percent b) 50% c) 22% d) 60.7%
30.3 percent! The United States emits more greenhouse gas pollution than South America, Africa, the Middle East, Australia and Asia all put together.
500

This is a term used to describe cities that have consistently higher temperatures than surrounding areas because of a greater retention of heat from buildings, concrete, and asphalt.

What is the heat island effect

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