Definitions
Gases that have the ability to absorb heat coming from earth's surface and direct it back to earth's surface.
Greenhouse Gases
The shifting of a society from relying on agriculture to relying on the manufacturing of goods.
Industrialization
The amount of heat in the atmosphere.
Temperature
The earth is closer to the sun at certain times. What natural process is this due to?
Changes in orbit
A thick layer of soil beneath the surface that remains frozen year-round. Found mainly in polar climate zones.
Permafrost
A system for detecting the direction, distance and speed of objects using radio waves.
Radar
The short-term conditions experienced in a region, including temperature, wind speed and direction, amount of sunlight, precipitation, humidity and cloud cover.
Weather
Meteors, volcanic eruptions, changes in the sun's orbit.
Occurrences of unusually severe weather.
Extreme weather
Long term shifts in global or regional climate patterns.
Climate change
Patterns of behaviour in which animals travel from one habitat to another in search of food, better living conditions or reproductive needs.
Migration Patterns
Two examples of extreme weather.
Hurricane, blizzards, tornadoes, forest fires, floods, drought
The presence or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
Pollution
To fix something in order to reuse the item so that you are reducing climate change.
Repair
The long term weather patterns of a region over a period of at least 30 years.
Climate
How can we identify and track climate change?
Through observations and comparisons.
The lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere.
Earth's Systems
To not buy new items in order to reduce industrialization through manufacturing.
Refuse
A period of change that shifts a society from relying on agriculture to relying on manufacturing of goods.
Industrialization
Name three impacts on agriculture caused by climate change.
crop selection, crop production, harvesting periods, irrigation, pest management.