Climate Change Causes
The most common greenhouse gas that is the main cause of climate change?
What is CO2?
The ice is melting in this cold, northern region
What is the Arctic?
The process of the Earth getting warmer over time due to pollution is called this
What is global warming?
This practice involves using old materials to make something new
What is recycling?
This large rainforest is often referred to as “the lungs of the Earth”
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This process happens when the sun's heat gets trapped in the atmosphere
What is the greenhouse effect?
These dangerous weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis are becoming more dangerous due to global warming
What are natural disasters?
This layer of gases surrounds the Earth and protects us from the sun rays
What is the atmosphere?
This clean energy source comes from the sun
What is solar power?
This ice-covered continent, home to penguins and polar bears, is shrinking due to global warming
What is Antarctica?
The process of cutting down too many trees
What is deforestation?
The Earth's oceans are becoming more acidic which is harming these ocean ecosystems.
What are Coral Reefs?
This energy comes from sources like the sun, wind, and water
What are renewable energy sources?
Riding this two-wheel vehicle doesn’t emit greenhouse gases and helps to deal with climate change
What is a bike?
This is the largest ocean in the world and is rapidly getting warmer and more acidified
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is the name for the gases that trap heat in the atmosphere
What are greenhouse gases?
Some areas of the world, like California in January, are experiencing an increasing amount of these natural disasters.
What are wildfires?
This process where heat from the sun gets trapped in Earth’s atmosphere gets its name from this type of structure that houses plants.
What is a greenhouse?
Planting these can help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
What are trees?
Climate change is causing these large ice mountains to melt causing ocean levels to rise
What are glaciers?
The burning of these fuels like coal and oil release harmful gases into the atmosphere
What are fossil fuels?
Climate change is making places too hot and dry, turning regular land into an arid, sandy landscape.
What is a desert?
This type of transportation which includes biking, public transit, and walking can help reduce pollution from cars
What is sustainable transportation?
Eating less of this kind of food, which comes from cows, can help reduce emissions of greenhouse gases
What is Beef?
This famous river that's the longest in the world, is at risk of drying up due to global warming.
What is the Nile River?