Definitions
Gases
Effects
Data
Miscellaneous
100
The layer of gases that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
Name the three most important greenhouse gases.
What are carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor?
100
This is happening to glaciers and ice sheets as the climate continues to change.
What is melt?
100
The overall trend of atmospheric carbon dioxide shown in this graph.
What is increasing?
100
A plate boundary between two plates that are moving towards each other.
What is convergent?
200
The long-term pattern of weather in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
What is climate?
200
What human activity is increasing the carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere?
What is burning fossil fuels?
200
One reason for sea level rise due to climate change.
What is, melting ice increases the water volume, OR as the sea water heats up it expands?
200
The overall trend of global average temperature shown in this graph.
What is increasing?
200
The three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid and gas?
300
The day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere in a location, including temperature and precipitation.
What is weather?
300
What historical event around 1850 caused average global temperatures to increase drastically?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
The action of clearing large sections of trees.
What is deforestation?
300
The equipment NASA uses to measure sea level rise.
What is a satellite?
300
The types of clouds that produce thunderstorms and hail storms.
What is cumulonimbus?
400
Earth's natural process where atmospheric gases trap heat from the sun, keeping the planet warm enough for life.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
400
What is the source of increase methane emissions?
What is livestock or farting cows?
400
Why planting trees can help slow climate change.
What is trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
400
This is what scientists get ancient carbon dioxide data from by Vostock, Antarctica.
What are ice cores.
400
Transfer of heat through movement of a fluid such as water or air.
What is convection?
500
These trap heat in the atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases?
500
The original source of the light that enters the atmosphere.
What is the sun?
500
This mammal is losing it's hunting grounds as sea ice melts at the poles.
What is a polar bear?
500
The location of the observatory scientists record recent carbon dioxide data.
What is Mauna Loa, Hawaii?
500
A measure of how much mass is packed into a specific volume. Mass/Volume
What is density?