Biology
This type of animal produces nutrients from simple organic substances
What is an autotroph
Located in the Arctic and Antarctica.
What are the polar Ice caps
Gases in the Earth's atmosphere that trap heat.
Greenhouse Gases
A long term change in weather patterns
Climate change
Human contribution to global climate change
What is burning fossil fuels
Ways for an autotroph to produce its own food
What is by consuming and processing light, water, CO2, or other chemical substances.
to cool the Earth
The phenomenon caused by warm gases being trapped inside the ozone layer of the earth.
What is climate change
The most common type of change in weather since the 1970's
More extreme heat
The age where society began burning more fossil fuels at one time than anytime in Human history
What is the industrial revolution
2 things autotrophs release during photosynthesis
Glucose and Oxygen
This is what is currently happening to the ice caps.
The polar ice caps are melting.
The three most commonly produced greenhouse gases.
How quickly the earth is warming
More than 10 times more quickly in the since the ice age which was 11,000 years ago.
The most common culprit for burning mass amounts of fossil fuels at one time
What are factories
This is what autotrophs do with stored nutrients after photosynthesis
What is store glucose as starch, and release oxygen into the atmosphere.
This is a consequence of what is happening to the ice caps in 2023.
The global climate is changing. This is a phenomenon known popularly as global warming.
An odorless, colorless gas which is a natural part of the environment. This gas makes up the Earth's ozone.
What is O3
This type of weather was prevalent in the ice age
What is extreme cold, mostly tundra like climates
The most common type of factory fuel
What is petrolium oil
Plants do this, but humans do that.
What is eat energy to make sugar, and what is eat sugar to make energy.
These animals are becoming extinct, because they are native to polar ice cap ecosystems. (name 3)
Polar bears, certain types of penguins, seals, whales, and a rich collection of marine animals.
A myth about climate change that "warming" gases thin the ozone layer.
Ozone depletion
This type of weather was prevalent in the age of dinosaurs and the stone age
What is extreme humidity, and heat.
This is the most common use for petroleum oil