Vocabulary
Climate Change
Natural Resources
Vocabulary #2
Graphs
100
This greenhouse gas has been increasing at alarming rates and is the leading cause of global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
A term we use sometimes to describe global warming.
What is climate change?
100
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, and Nuclear power are all examples of this.
What are non-renewable resources?
100
We measure and track this to show changes in the atmosphere and the oceans over.
What is average global temperature?
100
This is a country that uses the most energy per person.
What is US, Canada, Iceland, Australia, Saudi Arabia, or Norway?
200
Resources that can be replenished/replaced as quickly as they are used.
What is a renewable resource?
200
Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are all examples of this.
What are greenhouse gasses?
200
Solar, Wind, Hydroelectric, Biomass, and Geothermal are all examples of this.
What are renewable resources?
200
Actions for recreation, living, or necessity done by people. Includes leisure, entertainment, manufacturing, recreation, and exercise.
What is human activity?
200
This is the trend that the following graph shows.
What is a positive, increasing or upward trend in the global average temperature?
300
Formed from the remains of living organisms, creating fuels such as coal and natural gas.
What are fossil fuels?
300
The constant release of greenhouse gases is doing this to our global climate.
What is heating up/getting warmer/increasing average temperature?
300
Hmmmm: This is how many years of oil resources that we have left on the Earth.
What is 50 years?
300
Anything that is found in nature that then can be used by other living things.
What is natural resources?
300
This is the percent of greenhouse gases that are not CO2 related.
What is 24%?
400
Gas produced from livestock that has the ability to trap heat in the atmosphere.
What is methane?
400
The continuous use of resources and the impact that it has on the environment.
What is human impact?
400
This is how many years of coal resources that we have left on the Earth.
What is 130 years?
400
The use of a product like food, water, energy, space etc.
What is consumption?
400
This is the hottest year on record.
What is 2024?
500
Gasses prevent heat from escaping into space, warming the planet.
What are greenhouse gasses?
500
Name 2 of the weather impacts that have been increasing in frequency and severity, which points to climate change.
Heat waves, droughts, hurricanes, floods, severe thunderstorms, changes in precipitation patterns.
500
This energy resource can be created by splitting atoms in half.
What is nuclear energy?
500
Scientists are concerned over ANTHOPOGENIC factors of climate change. ANTHROPOGENIC means...
What is caused by humans?
500
Using this graph, make a claim about the amount of Artic sea ice cover over time.
What is, "The sea ice has been decreasing since the early 2000's"?