The Spheres
Natural Disasters
The Greenhouse Effect
Climate Change
Wall-E
100

This sphere consists of the gases that surround the Earth

What is the atmosphere?

100

This disaster occurs when lava erupts through the Earth's surface

What is a volcanic eruption?

100

This gas, produced by cars and factories, is one of the main greenhouse gases.

What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?

100

Climate change can harm this sphere, which includes all living things.

What is the biosphere?

100

This robot’s job is to compact rubbish into cubes on the abandoned Earth.

Who is WALL-E?

200

This sphere consists of the Earth's water

What is the hydrosphere?

200

These large windstorms are found south of the Equator, in the tropics

What are cyclones?

200

Greenhouse gases allow this type of radiation from the sun to pass through

What is ultraviolet (UV)?

200

Melting of these frozen land features causes sea levels to rise.

What are glaciers or ice caps?

200

This robot arrives from space looking for signs that life might still exist on Earth.

Who is EVE?

300

This sphere consists of the living things on Earth

What is the Biosphere?

300

These disasters are caused when the Earth's tectonic plates rub at plate boundaries or faults

What are earthquakes?

300

The greenhouse effect traps this form of radiation in the Earth’s atmosphere.

What is infrared (IR)?

300

A common sign of climate change is more extreme examples of this

What is weather?

300

This small green object shows that Earth might be able to support life again.

What is the plant?

400

This sphere consists of the Earth's rock and soil

What is the lithosphere?

400

These gigantic waves can cause massive amounts of damage. One hit Fukushima in Japan in 2011

What are tsunamis?

400

This human activity increases greenhouse gases the most.

What is burning fossil fuels?

400

Recycling, saving electricity, and using less fuel are all ways to help reduce this.

What is climate change (or carbon emissions)?

400

This huge ship carries the humans who left Earth because it became too polluted.

What is the Axiom?

500

This is the innermost layer of the lithosphere

What is the inner core?

500

This Icelandic volcano caused major disruptions to flights when it erupted in 2010

What is Eyjafjallajökull?

500

Cows produce large amounts of this greenhouse gas through mass burping

What is methane?

500

This international agreement, made in France, aims to limit global warming to well below two degrees Celsius

What is the Paris Agreement?

500

In the film, humans caused Earth to be covered in rubbish by relying too much on this company’s products.

What is Buy n Large (BnL)?