Causes
A term that refers to any significant change in climate patterns for an extended period of time.
What is climate change?
What is the most prominent and impactful change of climate change?
What is global warming?
A/M/R. Which term fits the shutting down of coal burning plants?
What is mitigation.
Which eco-friendly renewable-energy source is accessible to people like you and me, but at a heavy cost?
What is solar energy?
What has risen by over 50% since the industrial revolution?
What is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
What type of gases trap heat in the atmosphere?
What are greenhouse gases?
Which water-related event is much more common due to the rising global temperatures?
What are droughts?
A/M/R. Which term fits building homes with stronger materials?
What is resilience?
Which eco-friendly energy source harvests power from spinning turbines in fields?
What is wind energy?
Since 1901, what has risen by 0.13F every decade?
What are global surface temperatures?
What type of greenhouse gas is the biggest contributor to global warming?
What is carbon dioxide?
What sea-related change is influenced by global warming?
What are the rising sea levels?
A/M/R. Which term fits the switch to renewable energy?
What is mitigation?
Which eco-friendly energy source has turbines spun by water?
What is hydropower?
More than 90% of excess heat has been absorbed by the Land/Ocean?
What is the ocean?
What is the act of cutting down large areas of trees, causing carbon dioxide to be removed at a slower rate?
What is deforestation?
True/False. Greenhouse Gases have been accumulating in the atmosphere for all of earth's history at the same rate, and it is only now getting to be a problem.
What is false?
A/M/R. Which term fits moving people and businesses out of flood-prone areas?
What is adaptation?
Which eco-friendly energy source uses heat trapped deep within the earth?
What is geothermal energy?
What has risen by approximately 8 inches due to polar ice melting?
What is the sea level?
What causes the biggest release of carbon dioxide?
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
What is the product of a mixture of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide in the atmosphere?
What is acid rain?
A/M/R. Which term fits building shelter for temporary evacuation?
What is resilience?
Which eco-friendly energy source uses energy produced by living livestock and other natural sources?
What is biomass?
Over 75% of what have been "bleached" or turned white caused by rising water temperatures?
What are coral reefs?