What is global warming?
Long-term temperature and weather patterns change drastically.
How is the Earth changing as it gets hotter?
More glaciers are melting into the ocean and the global sea level is rising.
Ice caps melting.
Negitive
Water vapor is not causing global warming.
True
Fossil Fuels
Created by decaying plants and animals.
What are 3 reasons global warming happens?
Manufacturing goods, cutting down trees, and using transportation.
How can we help global warming?
Reduce, reuse, recycle, and repair.
Saving energy at home.
Positive
Global warming has been happening for the past 8,000 years.
False
Carbon Dioxide
Greenhouse has is released from burning fossil fuels.
What animals are affected by global warming?
Polar bears, snow leopards, giant pandas, tigers, monarch butterflies, green sea turtles, elephants, Mountain gorillas, Cheeta.
How can people change their diet to fight against global warming?
Start eating more plants and a balanced diet.
Eating more vegetables.
Positive
The ocean absorbs around 50% of the excess heat.
False
Methane
A gas produced by the production and transportation of coal, natural gas, and oil.
What things will become more expensive due to global warming?
Food prices.
How can we stop global warming?
Save energy, walking, biking, public transportation, eating more vegetables, reduce, reuse, recycle.
Severe storms.
Negitive
Polar regions are warming faster than tropical regions.
True
Recycling
Convert waste into reusable material.