benefits and burdens of tech
This is the term for tools, machines, or systems created to solve problems or make life easier.
What is technology?
This term describes the gradual increase in Earth’s average temperature due to human activities.
What is global warming?
This is the process of changing energy from one form to another.
what is energy tranformation?
This term describes ecosystems found in water, such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Answer: What are aquatic ecosystems?
This term describes the total amount of greenhouse gases a person or activity releases into the atmosphere.
Answer: What is a carbon footprint?
This benefit of technology helps Belizeans connect with family and friends using WhatsApp and Facebook.
: What is improved communication?
This gas, released from cars and factories, is the most common greenhouse gas contributing to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
When you plug in a fan, electrical energy changes into this type of energy as the blades spin.
er: What is mechanical energy?
This type of ecosystem is found on land, including forests, grasslands, and deserts.
Answer: What are terrestrial ecosystems?
This everyday activity increases your carbon footprint when you burn fuel to travel.
Answer: What is driving a car?
Answer: What is driving a car?
This burden of technology affects students when they spend too much time on devices instead of doing schoolwork.
What is improved healthcare?
Belize is losing parts of this important ecosystem due to warming oceans and coral bleaching.
What is the Belize Barrier Reef
In a toaster, electrical energy is transformed into this kind of energy to heat your bread.
Answer: What is thermal energy?
Belize’s coral reefs and mangroves are examples of this type of aquatic environment.
Answer: What are marine ecosystems?
Using renewable energy sources like solar power helps to do this to your carbon footprint.
Answer: What is reduce it?
this burden happens when machines replace human workers, reducing employment opportunities in Belize.
Answer: What is job loss due to automation?
This type of extreme weather event may become stronger in Belize because of global warming.
What are hurricanes?
In plants, solar energy is transformed into this type of energy during photosynthesis.
Answer: What is chemical energy?
The Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve in Belize is an example of this type of terrestrial ecosystem.
Answer: What is a forest ecosystem?
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This gas, released from burning fossil fuels, makes up most of a person’s carbon footprint.
Answer: What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
This burden happens when machines replace human workers, reducing employment opportunities in Belize.
What is job loss due to automation?
These low-lying areas in Belize City and coastal villages are at higher risk because sea levels are rising.
What are coastal and flood-prone communities?
In a gasoline-powered car, chemical energy in fuel is transformed into these two types of energy.
Answer: What are mechanical and thermal energy?
This important ecosystem acts as a nursery for fish and protects Belize’s coastline from erosion.
Answer: What are mangroves?
One of the biggest contributors to carbon footprints in Belize is this sector, which includes cars, buses, and airplanes.
Answer: What is the transportation sector?