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This country is now the greatest overall contributor of CO2 emissions in the world
What is China?
This is caused by the melting of glaciers and polar ice
What is sea level rising?
This garden-variety term describes the way our world is warming
What is the greenhouse effect?
For the purposes of this unit, we're primarily concerned with climate change due to this.
What is human activity?
This gas accounts for the majority of the greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
What is CO2 (carbon dioxide)?
This southern US city experiences "Sunny Day Flooding."
What is Miami, FL?
This condition occurs when there is no fresh water available for agriculture or human consumption
What is a drought?
This natural chemical is being produced in excessive amounts by human activity
What is CO2 (carbon dioxide)?
This gas results from cattle flatulence.
What is methane?
This method of measuring climate change can show the average temperature of the earth's surface as far back as 8000 years.
What is ice-core sampling?
This country is the largest per capita contributor of CO2 emissions
What is the US?
These can include hurricanes, tsunamis, and other massive storms
What are extreme weather events?
This ingredient in many modern, processed foods involves the burning of rainforest in Sumatra
What is palm oil?
This is required for life on Earth, and can appear in solid, liquid, or vapor form.
What is water?
This electric car company is hoping to reduce dependence on oil
What is Tesla?
This organism from the waters of the Northeast US requires extremely cold temperatures to reproduce
What is the lobster?
When these pollinators are no longer busy, many of our plants will have a hard time surviving
What are bees?
This in the cheapest, most readily available fossil fuel
What is coal?
This large trees grow in salt water on the coast of many tropical islands.
What are mangroves?
Climate scientists believe that the oceans could rise three feet by this centennial year
What is 2100?
This climate activist gave a speech at the Rio Earth Summit when she was only 12 years old
Who is Severn Suzuki?
This is the term for people who have been and will be forced to move away from coastal areas because of rising waters.
What are climate refugees?
What is beef?
This period in human history led to the first real spike in the use of fossil fuels.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This word describes the patterns in which species move from one place to another on the Earth
What is migration?