Climate Change
Climate change is mainly due to what effect?
The greenhouse effect
Fossil fuels are made out of what?
Once living organisms
Energy that will not run out is called what?
Renewable Energy
What is the name of the device that harnesses the Wind's energy
A Wind Turbine
What Sphere includes the air you are breathing?
The atmosphere
3.3 millimeters per year refers to what?
Sea level rise due to climate change
Fossil fuels have this classification, which means we will run out of them
Nonrenewable
Energy generated from moving water is called what?
Hydroelectric Power
Gasoline includes a Biomass fuel additive called what?
Ethanol
This is the boundary where plates are moving apart
Divergent
This is the most harmful greenhouse gas to our environment
carbon dioxide
Fossil Fuels are formed over long periods of time with two other aspects. One of them is high heat, the other is what?
Pressure
Name a con of Solar power
Minerals have to be mined, its also not sunny all of the time.
How is climate change affecting our health as humans?
Increasing issues with breathing, child asthma
This type of rock is formed from cooling magma
Igneous rocks
Hurricanes and tornados are a Sid effect of climate change, referred to as an increase in what?
Severe Weather
This fossil fuel is mostly made of methane
Natural gas
Energy from the heat from the Earth is called what?
Geothermic Energy
What does the thawing of permafrost release?
Methane
Alfred Wegener came up with the concept of what?
Continental drift
How does climate change cause more vector-borne diseases
It increases the range in which insects can survive and infect people
The United States has the most of what fossil fuel?
Coal
What element is often split for nuclear power generation?
Uranium
Marine organisms formed which fossil fuel?
Oil
This rock is the most common to have fossils inside of it
Sedimentary