Vocabulary
This layer of Earth contains greenhouse gasses.
What is the atmosphere?
The most abundant greenhouse gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
Can be reported as a daily forecast
What is weather?
This type of energy can be replaced and replenished.
What is renewable energy?
The greatest contributor to the greenhouse gas effect.
What are fossil fuels?
The heating of the Earth's atmosphere caused by the greenhouse effect.
What is global warming?
This term is used to describe what happens to the Earth as a result of the greenhouse effect.
What is global warming?
What is climate?
This type of energy uses heat from within Earth's core to spin a turbine and produce electricity.
What is geothermal energy?
True or False: Ice and Snow have a high albedo effect.
Hint: Albedo effect describes how much sunlight is reflected back into space.
What is True?
A word used to describe when trees are removed or cut down.
What is deforestation?
This gas is produced by trees after undergoing photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
True or False: Land heats up faster then ocean water.
What is true?
The names of the 4 types of renewable energy.
What is wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower?
This gas makes up 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
What is deforestation?
What is a tsunamis?
List the main 3 greenhouse gasses.
What is carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide?
This type of natural disaster impacts Arctic communities.
What is glacial melting or blizzard?
What is expensive, depends on the weather, and needs lot's of space?
B.C is most likely to encounter these 2 types of natural disasters.
What is a forest fire and flooding?
The variety of plants and animals living in a particular habitat.
What is biodiversity?
What is cutting down trees, raising cattle, and working in factories?
Long periods without rainfall are often referred to as this.
What is a drought?
This type of energy produces 15% of the world's electricity.
What is hydropower?
This describes how meteor strikes impact climate.
What is they block sunlight and increase greenhouse gas emissions?