Without this, the earth would be too cold to sustain life.
What is the greenhouse effect.
100
This is a threat to coastal areas around the globe because of rising temperatures.
What is sea level rise?
100
Yesterday was cold and windy in New York City.
What is weather
100
Name at least 2 natural places where carbon is stored in the carbon cycle.
What is the oceans, underground carbon sinks (fossil fuels), soil, plants, the atmosphere, animals
100
How are human contributing to increased greenhouse gases?
What is factories, cars, burning forests, using fossil fuels, large scale agriculture.
200
Another way to say heat energy is...
What is infrared radiation.
200
This is the cause of sea level rise
What is melting glaciers, melting land ice, melting sea ice, melting permafrost.
200
Average temperatures have increased in the past 100 year in North America.
What is climate?
200
Name three things that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is driving, using electricity, burning fossil fuels, burning trees, buying new clothes/stuff, plane trips, etc.
200
This will happen to the temperature if you remove all the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is get cooler?
300
The greenhouse effect is like a _____________.
What is a blanket around earth to keep us warm?
300
Explain why land ice (glaciers and permafrost) change is a better way to measure climate change than sea ice change.
Sea ice changes seasonally. When land ice melts, it usually does not return. When land ice melts there is more area on earth that absorbs heat radiation than reflect it like the ice does.
300
Explain why the following does not make sense: It is so cold today and it is snowing in the mountains. There must not be climate change!
What is the situation described is weather and does not include long term data.
300
Coal, natural gas, and oil are all forms of...
What are fossil fuels?
300
This happens when the sun's rays hit ice or clouds.
What is the solar radiation is reflected back out of the atmosphere without changing to infrared, heat, radiation.
400
The solar radiation that bounces off the earth back toward the atmosphere is mostly what kind of radiation?
What is infrared radiation
400
Define emissions
What is the act or giving off or sending out, as in a release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?
400
Define weather.
What is the current conditions at a place in time of temperature, precipitation, wind.
400
Fossil fuels are created by
What is formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years
400
Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases cause Earth's atmosphere to warm by...
What is absorbing or trapping outgoing infrared (heat) radiation.
500
List 3 greenhouse gases.
What are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor?
500
Describe the relationship between temperature of the oceans and the amount of carbon dioxide that can be dissolved in the ocean.
What is higher the temperature of the ocean the less carbon dioxide can dissolve. OR The lower the temperature of the ocean the more carbon dioxide can dissolve in the ocean.
500
Define climate.
What is the long term conditions and trends of weather in an area.
500
Fossil fuels release their carbon back into the atmosphere when...
What is when humans extract and burn fossil fuels for energy.
500
Name two types of solar radiation that enters the earth's atmosphere from the sun.
What is visible light radiation and ultraviolet radiation.