Resilient
Found on houses near the water to protect them from floods.
What are stilts?
Covert rdiant energy from the sun to electricity.
What are solar panels?
They store energy that came from the sun. They formed hundreds of millions of years ago.
What are fossil fuels?
Average weather over a long period of time.
What is climate.
Happening outside on a daily basis.
What is weather?
Usually made of concrete; protect roads and buildings from tidal surges.
What are seawalls?
Convert motion energy (wind) to electricity.
What are windmills/wind turbines.
Fossil fuels can be burned to release thermal energy (combustion), they also emit this into the atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
A main cause of climate change.
Burning fossil fuels.
April 22 every year.
What is Earth Day?
An amphibious house.
What is, if there is a flood, the house will rise with the water instead of flooding? Otherwise, it rests on the ground.
Eco-friendly; green building.
What is sustainable?
Gases that form the blanket around the Earth that keeps Earth warm.
What are greenhouse gases?
Ice caps are melting. Name two reasons why we should care.
Possible answers: Sea levels rising, destroying animal habitats, stronger storms, flooding
Add resilient and sustainable features to your house.
What is how to prepare for climate change?
An adaptation; to protect the shore or a building from a flood, major storm etc...
What is resilient?
Used to collect rain to water your lawn and gardens
What is a rain barrel?
Greenhouse gases form a blanket to keep us warm; why are we worried that more of these gases are building up in the atmosphere?
Possible answers: Greenhouse gases are thickening the natural blanket, Earth is becoming too warm, ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, wildfires are increasing....
Hotter climate, more wildfires, stronger storms, less snow.....
What are effects of climate change?
Name a way that methane gas is released into the atmosphere, and added to Earth's natural blanket.
Possible answers: animal agriculture, rotting food
Living shorelines help protect the shore by doing this.
What is a living shoreline is a protected, stabilized coastal edge made of natural materials such as plants, sand, or rock. Unlike a concrete seawall or other hard structure, living shorelines grow over time protecting the shore?
Insulation on your roof; takes carbon out of the atmosphere and emits oxygen.
What is a roof made from grass?
Two things that you can do to help end global warming.
Possible answers: recycle, get solar panels, use wind power, compost....
Temperatures are rising, so why might we have stronger storms?
What is, there is more moisture in the atmosphere?
Scientists can gain information about the climate in a few different ways. Name two.
Possible answers: tree rings, ice cores, coral cores, underground earthquakes