Global Temperature Rise
What happens to regional and seasonal temperatures if there is a 2 degree increase in global average surface temperature?
What is it drives the temperatures to extremes (examples are also fine)?
_______ emissions lead to rising ocean temperatures.
What is greenhouse gas?
What has led to increased melting of ice sheets and faster glacier movement at Greenland's edges?
What is higher temperatures?
Which places in the world are experiencing glacial retreat? (Give at least 2 examples)
What is the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska, and Africa?
SEA LEVEL RISE: What are the 2 primary causes of rising sea levels? (They are related to global warming)
What is melting ice sheets and glaciers and the expansion of seawater as it warms?
Does it take a lot of heat energy to raise Earth’s average yearly surface temperature? Why?
What is, yes, because the global oceans(which makes up most of the Earth) is really big and has a huge heat capacity?
What happens to coral when ocean temperatures rise?
What is coral bleaching?
Which ice sheets are melting faster, Ice Sheets in the Antarctic, or Ice Sheets in Greenland?
What is the Ice Sheets in Greenland?
What has been causing many glacial retreats around the world?
What is higher temperatures and less snowfall?
SEA LEVEL RISE: If Greenland were to melt completely how much could the global sea level rise?
What is 7 meters (23 feet)?
2020 was ranked as the ____ warmest year in the 141 year record from the combined land and ocean surface.
What is second?
According to the Fifth Assessment Report published by the IPCC in 2013 what percent(approximately) of heat from greenhouse gas emissions was absorbed by the oceans since the 1970s?
What is 93%? (answer can be more/less than 5%)
What is the probable cause of melting Ice Sheets in the West Antarctic?
What is warmer water deep in the ocean near the Antarctic coast?
Because all water from glaciers eventually flows into the sea, what is happening to sea levels because of retreating glacier?
What is the sea levels are rising?
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION: Our oceans absorb a quarter of what gas that humans produce by burning fossil fuels?
What is carbon dioxide?
At the station in Esperanza Base, at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula a new all-time record high temperature was set on February 6, 2020. What was the all-time high temperature on that day?
What is 65.1 degrees Fahrenheit (18.4 degrees Celsius)?
Give two examples of how rising ocean temperatures effect living organisms.
What is __(answers may vary)__? (ex: loss of breeding grounds for marine life, loss of stable income for fisherman, increased prevalence of diseases)
Since 2000, how many billion tons of ice has Greenland lost?
What is 4000 billion tons of ice?
What do glacial retreats leave behind?
What is glacial moraines (boulders and masses of scraped-together rocky debris and soil)?
SEA LEVEL RISE: In the past century global sea levels have risen about 8 inches (20 centimeters). But in the recent 2 decades that number has nearly ______ and is still on the rise.
What is doubled?
According to the 2020 Global Climate Report from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, every month in 2020 was in the top 4 warmest on record(for that month) except for one month. Which month was it?
What is December?
In the years past the oceans have absorbed a lot of heat. Since 1969, by how many degrees has the top 100 meters of the ocean warmed?
What is (more than) 0.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.33 degrees Celsius)?
Since 1950 how much has the Antarctic Peninsula warmed(in degrees)?
What is 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit(2.5 degrees Celsius)?
According to NASA, what is the approximate total glacier loss per year since 1994?
What is 400 billion tons?
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION: Acidic water makes it harder for creatures with ________ in their shells or skeletons (mollusks, crabs, and corals) because it makes it harder for them to grow those shells.
What is calcium carbonate?