Climate Basics
What greenhouse gas do we discuss most related to human‑caused climate change?
What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
Name one country that is among the most affected by climate change.
What is Bangladesh, Somalia, Madagascar, Chad, Pakistan, Haiti, or South Sudan?
True or False: The poorest countries produce most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
What is False?
Name one way climate change can affect kids’ lives in countries like Bangladesh, Somalia, or Madagascar.
What is hunger, losing homes, missing school, getting sick, or being forced to move?
Name one everyday action students can take to lower emissions a little bit.
What is using less energy, turning off lights, walking/biking/carpooling, eating less meat, or buying less fast fashion?
What is the main human activity that adds extra greenhouse gases to the atmosphere?
What is burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas)?
This low‑lying Asian country faces massive flooding and sea‑level rise that threaten to displace millions.
What is Bangladesh?
Give one reason poorer countries are hit harder by climate change than richer countries.
What is they depend more on farming, have weaker infrastructure, have less money to rebuild, or contributed less to emissions?
What happens when repeated droughts and floods destroy farmland year after year?
What is desertification / permanent loss of arable land?
What is one thing your school or club could do to raise awareness about climate impacts in poorer countries?
What is a presentation, poster campaign, social media posts, a school announcement, etc.?
What is one way extra heat in the atmosphere changes the weather?
What is stronger storms, more heat waves, longer droughts, heavier floods, or rising sea levels?
In this East African country, repeated droughts have killed crops and livestock, causing hunger and forcing families to move.
What is Somalia?
People in low‑income countries are more likely to be displaced by extreme weather than people in rich countries. Is it closer to 2 times, 5 times, or 10 times more likely?
What is about 5 times more likely?
What % of world's poor depend directly on climate-vulnerable natural resources?
What is about 70%?
In one sentence, describe a change you’d like to see at your school that connects to climate justice.
Open Answer.
What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”?
What is weather is day‑to‑day conditions, and climate is long‑term patterns and averages?
This island country off the coast of Africa has been pushed toward famine by years of drought linked to climate change.
What is Madagascar?
Many poorer countries suffer more from climate change even though they didn’t cause most of the emissions. What phrase do we use for this unfair situation?
What is climate injustice (or inequality)?
In a flood‑prone or drought‑prone area, what might families do if they can no longer live off their land?
What is migrate to another area or city, move to a camp, or become climate refugees?
Why is it important for people in high‑emitting countries to care about impacts in places like Bangladesh or Somalia?
What is because we contribute more to the problem and have more power and resources to help fix it?
Why is the greenhouse effect not always a bad thing?
What is it naturally keeps Earth warm enough for life, but extra gases from humans make it too strong?
Which ocean region has dozens of small island nations facing total submersion from sea-level rise?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Explain in one sentence why climate change is also an issue of fairness between countries.
What is that those who contributed the least to emissions are often the ones suffering the most from their effects?
What do we call people forced to leave their homes permanently because climate change made their land unlivable?
Climate refugees
What UN agreement aims to help poor countries adapt to climate impacts?
What is the Paris Agreement?