What are:
- pollution
- greenhouse gase emissions
- carbon dioxide from fossil fuel use
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Name one environmental impact of global warming
What is
- The rise in Earth's average temperature
- Rising sea levels
- Melting glaciers
- Increases in extreme weather events
- Changes in plant and animal life
100
Name the most important greenhouse gas contributing the global warming
What is carbon dioxide?
100
How does the burning of fossil fuels relate to global warming?
Fossil fuels emit greenhouse gases
100
Name two renewable sources of energy
What is
- Solar Power
- Wind Power
- Nuclear Power
- Water (hyrdrothermal)
- Geothermal
200
What is global warming?
An increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
200
Is global warming something that will happen in the future, or is it happening now?
Now! We can see effects from it in many places today.
Name two ways in which humans contribute to greenhouse gas emissions
Driving cars, planes, trains, electricity, not turning off light switches, waste, consumption (plastic production releases GHG gases) etc...
200
What are renewable energy sources?
What is energy from natural resources that are constantly replaced.
300
Name one natural cause of global warming
-Volcanoes?
-The natural release of methane from permafrost (arctic tundra) and wetlands
-Earth's natural climate cycle
300
How will global warming affect you? Why worry?
Ai pollution sickness, extreme heat waves, flooding, less freshwater, deadly diseases more widespread. Creating an unlivable planet for future generations.
300
Name two fossil fuels
What is
- Oil
- Coal
- Natural Gas
300
How does deforestation (cutting down vast landscapes of trees) influence global warming?
Less CO2 intake = more CO2 for the atmosphere
300
Why is energy from wind turbines better than coal fired power plants (hint: coal = fossil fuel).
Wind energy is a renewable resource and does not emit greenhouse gases. Therefore, it does contribute to global warming.
400
Does a rising human population contribute to global warming? (If so, how?)
Yes, more people = more energy and resources = more greenhouse gas emissions.
400
How is biodiversity loss an effect of global warming?
What are disappearing habitats, changing ecosystems and oceans.
400
What are fossil fuels?
Non-renewable resources that are used for transportation and to generate our electricity.
400
How does agriculture contribute to global warming?
Management practices, emission of methane (form cattle) and nitrous oxide, animal manure, transportation, fossil fuels.
400
How does recycling help reduce climate change?
Less production and transportation of new products = fewer GHG emissions.
500
What is the greenhouse effect?
The greenhouse effect is a natural process by which some of the heat from the Sun is trapped in the Earth's atmosphere by greenhouses gases and regulates Earth's temperature.
500
How does global warming affect the ocean?
Rising sea level, salt content in seawater, temperature of ocean, disruptive ocean currents.
Which of the following is the biggest source of global warming?
- Transportation
- Agriculture
- Energy
- Industry
What is energy supply? The burning of coal, natural gas, and oil for electricity and heat is the largest single source of global greenhouse gas emissions.
500
Name two daily actions that can reduce your carbon footprint?
Turning off unnecessary lights, reducing waste consumption, walking, biking, etc.