Myth or Fact?
Cause it's cold climate change isn't happening, myth or fact?
Myth.
Fact: Climate is different from weather.
What is one thing that can happen to forests because of climate change?
They're burnt down, or lose biodiversity.
What are fossil fuels?
Non-renewable energy sources that come from fossils.
Are fossil fuels renewable?
No.
Climate change causes losses in Biodiversity, myth or fact?
Fact.
What can be an effect of factories pouring out smoke?
Air pollution, or rises in temperature.
Are all fossils that fossil fuels come from dinosaurs?
No, they come from a multitude of fossils. Some aren't even animals, they're plants!
Whats the type of energy that comes from earths heat called?
Geothermal.
Climate change scientists go in the field because it pays more, myth or fact?
Myth.
Fact: Climate Change science usually pays less.
What is one way that climate change can cause loss in biodiversity?
Making animals loose their home.
How are fossil fuels made?
They come from compressed fossils as the name suggests.
What is Hydroelectric power?
Electricity made by water power.
Climate Change only causes rising temperatures and sea levels, myth or fact?
Myth.
Fact: Climate change is complicated and can cause a multitude of issues.
List at least three ways that climate change effects things.
Unpredictable weather, rising sea levels, rising temperatures, rise in infectious disease carrying animals, and loss in biodiversity.
Why is it bad to burn fossil fuels?
Because they release Co2 into the air causing the enhanced greenhouse gas effect.
Is nuclear a renewable energy?
No, as the components aren't infinite nor self-repleting.
We lose 1.3 Trillion tons of ice a year, myth or fact?
Myth.
Fact: We loose 1.2 trillion tons of ice a year.
What is one unknown way that climate change directly effects humans?
Illness, mainly in creating habitats good for infectious disease carrying animals.
List four types of fossil fuels.
Coal, oil, natural gas, and petroleum.
List five different renewable energies.
Biomass, hydroelectric power, Geothermal, wind, and solar.