Greenhouse and Pollution
Renewable / Nonrenewable
Cause and Effect
Diagrams and Graphs
What's that word?
100
Solar energy is absorbed by Earth's land and water surfaces and changed to heat that moves into the atmosphere. Once the heat enters the atmosphere it cannot escape because it is trapped. What is the name of this process?
The Greenhouse Effect
100
Gas
Nonrenewable (1)
100
Increased use of nonrenewable energy sources like coal, natural gas, and oil will cause what?
The Greenhouse Effect
Air Pollution (18) (19)
100
What process is being shown in this diagram?
The Greenhouse Effect (13)
100
Definition- A resource that is limited and does not replenish easily.
Nonrenewable
200
Name a greenhouse gas
Carbon Dioxide
Methane
Water Vapor
Nitrous Oxide (9)
200
Wind
Renewable (7, 5)
200
Solar energy shines down from the sun. Some of the solar energy is absorbed and radiated by the earth as infrared energy.
What happens to the atmosphere if greenhouse gases are present in high concentrations?
The temperature increases. (16)
200
The numbers shown in the diagram show radiation from the sun. Which NUMBER shows radiation that is causing the greenhouse effect?
Number 4 is demonstrating infrared radiation being caught in the troposphere, capturing and keeping heat in the atmosphere. (10)
200
Defintion- The wearing away of soil from wind and/or water.
Erosion
300
Which widely used nonrenewable resources are primary source of greenhouse gas emissions?
Fossil Fuels
300
Wood
Renewable
300
The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest on earth. Currently the amazon rain forest is being cut down for agriculture and wood products. As this continues, what is likely to happen to BIOTIC organisms in the Amazon Rain forest?
They will lose their habitat and risk extinction.
300
This graph shows substances emitted from power plants. What kind of pollution is being created when these substances are emitted (released)?
Air Pollution (12)
300
Definition- A release of gas
Hint: Starts with an 'E'
Emission
400
Burning fossil fuels emits gases which cause the greenhouse effect.
What is another effect of burning fossil fuels?
Air Pollution
400
Sun
Renewable
400
Overgrazing is when animals over eat the vegetation (plants) around an area, ripping up the roots of plants.
What is the most likely consequence on the land from overgrazing?
Soil Erosion (4)
400
According the graph, if CO2 continues to increase in concentration, what will happen to temperature?
As CO2 levels rise, temperatures also rise. (17)
400
Definition- The act of saving a resource by lowering your use of the resource, protecting the resource, and managing the resource properly.
Hint- Starts with a 'C'
Conservation
500
What type of pollution is caused by a massive spill of a specific fossil fuel?
Oil Spill
500
Nuclear
Nonrenewable
500
A fishing company is continuously catching the bluefin tuna. Scientists are noticing the numbers of the bluefin tuna are decreasing rapidly.
What should scientists advise the fishing company to do? What will happen if the fishing companies don't listen?
The scientists should advise fishing companies to practice conservation and manage the fish population better, catching less fish, to preserve the population.
If the fishing companies don't listen, the bluefin tuna population will collapse and risk extinction.
Humans will also lose a food source.
500
The graph shows the continued use of Gasoline and Diesel fuel. What effect will the continued use of these two energy sources most likely have on the planet? (2 answers)
Temperatures will continue to rise
Air Pollution (19)
500
Definition- When herbivores (like cattle, deer, goats, rabbits, etc.) over eat the plants, destroying the roots, causing the topsoil to become loose and erode.
Hint: Starts with an 'O'
Overgrazing
600
What type of pollution has created large rafts of trash in the ocean?
Plastic Pollution
600
Wood is a renewable resource. Cutting down a forest for wood however has many impacts.
What other impacts does cutting down a forest have?
Loss of animal and plant species that live in the forest. (11)
600
The Javan Tiger lives on the island of Java. Much of the jungle of Java, the Tiger's habitat, was cut down by humans. Disease killed much of the tiger's food source, the Rusa Deer.
What most likely happened to the Javan Tiger after it lost it's habitat and food source?
The Javan Tiger went extinct. (6)
600
What is this a model of?
CARBON DIOXIDE!
600
Definition- The reduction, exhaustion, or using up of a resource.
Hint: Starts with a 'D'
Deplete or Depletion