Causes of Climate Change
When natural gas or fuel is burned to create energy.
What is fossil fuels?
Tornados, hurricanes, floods, drought
What is extreme weather?
When you leave the room you should do this.
What is turning off the lights?
When the green house gases traps heat on the Earth's surface.
What is the greenhouse effect?
When forests are cut down and the temperatures become uncomfortable for animals.
What is habitat loss?
The greenhouse gas produced because humans are raising more cattle and livestock.
What is methane?
When ice melting causes cities to flood.
What is raising sea levels?
The three Rs.
When there are less trees because humans are cutting them down which increases the amount of green house gases in the atmosphere.
What is deforestation?
When Indigenous peoples have less land to live on due to the water due to climate change.
What is rising ocean levels?
The process of cutting trees down causing animals to lose habitats.
What is deforestation?
When animals lose track of when to head to far away destinations due to change in climate.
What are changing migration patterns?
When heading to a similar location and taking one car instead of multiple.
What is car pooling?
When there is more ice melting, it makes the climate.
What is warmer?
Producing less waste because materials such as plastics and metals are turned into new things instead of having to create more.
What is recycling?
The process of making sure garbage, recycling, and compost is properly distributed.
What is waste management?
When certain animals or plants die due to climate and it affects the diet of other animals in the same ecosystem.
What is altering of food webs?
What is renewable energy?
The climate gets ______ the further away we are from an urban area.
What is cooler?
The part of Earth that has warmer climate as it gets more sun.
What is an equator?
When humans want to ride cars, busses, trains, etc.
What is transportation?
When the planet warming causes certain insects to be able to survive in places they weren't able to before. These insects usually do not have natural predators which causes destruction of natural species.
What is increased in invasive species?
Scientists can measure climate change using these technologies.
What are radars, satellites, and computer modelling?
What are ice cores?
A word that means how much higher or lower a location is compared to sea level.
What is altitude?