Ice caps and Sea Levels
A layer of thick ice and snow that covers less than 50,000km2.
What is an ice cap?
Some volcanoes produce more harm than others.
What is true?
This century has been the warmest on record.
What is the 21st century?
The amount of variety of life on earth.
What is Biodiversity?
This effects how much food is produced.
What is bad weather?
This region is having the most difficulty with the increase of temperatures.
What is the arctic region?
Any gas in the atmosphere that takes in/absorbs and gives off/emits radiation heat (infrared) wavelength range.
What is greenhouse gases?
These gases absorb or emit rising temperatures on Earth.
What is a greenhouse gas?
What is coral reefs?
This respiratory disease and cardiovascular disease.
What is bad air quality?
Scientists expect these two things will have the greatest impact on sea levels.
What are glaciers and ice sheets?
Typically volcanoes that effect the environment are those that produce more ash and ________.
What is a higher plume of smoke?
These cause tens of thousands of deaths around the world.
What are extreme heat waves?
Rapid changes in a specie's ecosystem do not allow time for this.
What is Adaptation?
Some cities are expected to have ______ more heat waves.
What is 4-8 times?
This percent of ice is going to melt in the future.
What is 35%?
_______ in the atmosphere can absorb thermal energy radiated from the earth causing the atmosphere to heat up.
What is water vapor?
Carbon dioxide traps radiation at ground level which creates ______.
What is ground ozone level?
30% of all plants and animals will go extinct in this amount of years.
What is 100?
This is caused by water droplets mixed with small particles.
What is particle air pollution?
These are three consequences of decreasing/melting ice caps.
What is warmer temperatures, rising sea levels, and decreasing fresh water supply?
These THREE gases that start with an H, are in volcanoes.
What is hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen fluoride.
When the temperature is warmer.
What is positive anomaly?
These TWO characteristics prove that an ecosystem is rich in biodiversity.
What is one of the following:
Protects freshwater resources
Contributes to climate stability
Recovers quickly from natural disasters.
Provides more food resources.
Malnutrition is caused by these two things.
What is extreme weather events and more CO2 in the air?