Atmosphere
The layer of the atmosphere with water.
What is the hydrosphere?
These are the two greenhouse gases.
What are methane and carbon dioxide?
Multiple answers acceptable. Examples:
What is reusing?
What is using a metal water bottle or canvas bag?
Weather over time
What is climate?
Cutting down forests of trees.
What is deforestation?
The part of the atmosphere that includes life.
What is the biosphere?
What is methane?
Alternatives to driving a car.
What is biking, using public transportation and/or walking?
A resource, like fossil fuels, that cannot be replaced.
What is a non-renewable resource?
The carbon dioxide that comes out of a car's tailpipe, a factory smokestack or even a landfill.
What are carbon emissions?
The part of the atmosphere that includes rocks, soil and continents.
What is the geosphere?
Mining for ______ releases methane.
What is coal?
Eating leftovers is a design solution for this warming factor.
What is food waste?
Greenhouse gases are essential for this reason.
What is preventing an ice age?
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What is keeping the planet from getting too cold?
Correct answers may vary.
What or who is an activist?
The layer of the atmosphere where the greenhouse gases are.
What is the stratosphere?
A reason to burn fossil fuels.
Various correct answers.
Example:
What is fueling cars, heating homes and/or powering industry?
Meatless Monday is a design solution for this warming factor.
What is cattle overpopulation?
In the United States, this is the amount of food that ends getting wasted.
What is 1/3?
One part of it
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
The amount of degrees F the planet has warmed by?
What is 2 degrees?
What are solar panels, wind energy and/or hydro power?
What is geothermal energy and/or nuclear power are also acceptable answers.
The second leading cause of global warming.
What is deforestation?
These are melting and causing sea levels to rise.
What are glaciers?