Impacts of Climate Change
What is causing polar bears to lose their homes?
Ice caps melting.
What does "elliptical" mean?
Round/oval like a rugby ball.
What is an ice core?
A sample of ice from glaciers and ice sheets.
Does Volcanic activity make the Earth hotter or colder?
colder
What is a drought?
What is a greenhouse gas?
-Something that gets trapped in the atmosphere, like co2.
What has increased since we started burning fossil fuels? (not greenhouse gases)
global temperature
What is deforestation?
Cutting down trees.
What are the impacts of hotter temperature on PEOPLE?
Increased risk of skin diseases and heat stroke, greater water supply issues.
Outline the greenhouse effect.
Where solar radiation is trapped in the atmosphere because of greenhouse gases, so the earth gets hotter.
What is melting on the poles?
Ice caps.
What does PEEL stand for?
Point, Evidence, Explain, Link
What will happen to biodiversity if climate change increases?
We will lose many species, thus reducing biodiversity.
How can agriculture impact climate change?
What's a sign of climate change? Early autumn or Early Spring?
Early spring
Define Climate Change
The change in average temperature and weather patterns over a long period of time.
What is one human cause of climate change?
-Burning fossil fuels
-Agriculture
-Deforestation
What are the three Milankovitch cycles?
-Eccentricity (stretch)
- Obliquity (tilt)
-Precession (wobble)
What rose by 0.21m between 1900 and 2019?
Sea levels.
State an example PEEL paragraph to answer this question:
Do you agree that humans cause climate change?
I think that humans cause climate change because of...
For example...
This means that...