Green House Gas
Climate /Weather
Global Warming
Vocabulary
Mitigation Practices
100

Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas?  A) Water Vapour, B) Sulphur Nitrate, C) Carbon Dioxide, D) artificial fertilisers

What is artificial fertilisers

100

Can be reported as a daily forecast.

What is weather?

100

What is Global Warming?   A) The melting of the earth, B) The rising sea, C) The third planet from the sun, D) The long-term rise in the earth's surface temperature

What is the long-term rise in the earth's surface temperature

100

The term that refers to any significant change in climate patterns for an extended period of time.

What is climate change?

100

Planting these to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

What are trees?

200

This gas is the primary driver of climate change and is released by burning fossil fuels

What is carbon dioxide or CO2

200

The type of ice, when melted contributes to rise in sea level

What are glaciers

200

Burning these is the greatest contributor to greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.

What are fossil fuels?

200

The layer of gases which surrounds the earth.

What is atmosphere?

200

The practices includes reducing and reusing waste materials.

What is recycling?

300

Is the chemical symbol for water.

What is H2O?

300

Tells the state of the atmosphere in a region of the earth.

What is climate?

300

Changes in seasonal rainfall.

What is the effects of climate change?

300

The variety of plants and animals living in a particular habitat.

What is biodiversity?

300

The practice of building sea walls.

What is adaptation?

400

The gas that is absorbed by trees.

What is CO2?

400

This is the study of long-term patterns of atmospheric conditions

What is climate

400

The way in which gases in the earth's atmosphere. especially carbon dioxide, trap heat.

What is the greenhouse effect?

400

Measure of distance from equator.

What is latitude?

400

The 2015 international agreement aimed at limiting global warming to below 2 degrees Celcius.

What is the Paris Agreement?

500

The natural process by which gases trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping into space

What is the greenhouse effect.

500

These winds usually blow NE and SE.

What are trade winds?

500

It is when large amount of trees are removed.

What is deforestation?

500

Conditions in the atmosphere at a particular place and time.

What is weather?

500

Alternative energy production that helps in climate change.

What is wind energy?