Climate
Climate change happens ________.
What is slowly over time?
True or false? Methane is a gas in the atmosphere that causes climate change.
What is true?
Carbon dioxide is mainly produced from ______.
Humans burning fossil fuels?
What happened to the temperature during the Eocene?
What is climate is very warm?
Incoming energy passes ______ carbon dioxide and methane.
What is through?
General weather patterns over a long period of time is called
What is climate?
Methane usually comes from what animal?
What is cows?
What happens when methane levels increase?
When methane increases, more outgoing energy is redirected back toward Earth’s surface, so more energy enters the Earth system than exits, and there is more energy in the Earth system. This means the amount of energy absorbed by Earth’s surface increases, and this causes global average temperature to increase.
Most of which gas is produced by human activities?
What is Carbon dioxide?
Carbon dioxide redirects _____ back to the earth.
What is energy?
A ________ is a spike or decrease over a short time period.
What is fluctuation?
Humans can do this to help cut down on the amount of methane in the atmosphere.
What is capture methane from cows?
Doing this can help bring down the carbon dioxide levels in our atmoshpere.
What is use more bikes and public transportation instead of driving cars?
What are gases called that increase the temperature of the Earth?
Greenhouse gases
The global temperatures inecrease when ___ energy enters than exits.
What is more?
The 2 gases that cause most of climate change.
What is Carbon dioxide and Methane?
Methane causes ______ energy to exit than enter.
What is less?
Absorb means to........
What is take in?
What happens when Carbon Dioxide decreases?
When carbon dioxide in the atmosphere decreased, less energy entered the earth system than exited. This is because carbon dioxide redirects outgoing energy back to the Earth’s surface. When there was less redirection, more energy exited the system and there was less energy in the Earth system. Less energy was absorbed by the surface, so the temperature got colder, which led to the ice age.
The nickname for the Cryogenian period
What is Snowball Earth?
________ happens over long periods of time
What is a trend?
Another source of methane from the early Eocene is from the ______.
What is a ocean floor?
Mixture of gases surrounding a planet.
What is atmosphere?
Things people do to affect Earth's system
What are human activities?
Sulfur dioxide redirects energy back to _____.
What is outer space?