The Carbon Cycle & Human Impact
A ______________ ______________is the total amount of greenhouse gases that are produced by an individual, organization or activity.
What is a CARBON FOOTPRINT?
Explain what the difference is between Weather and Climate?
What is - Weather has to do with short term changes in the atmosphere regarding temperature, precipitation, wind and air pressure. Climate is the weather patterns for a region (data has been gathered over many years to determine patterns).
All ROCKS are made of natural non-living substances called...
What are MINERALS?
Also acceptable: elements
______________are giant balls of exploding gas. They mainly consist of helium and hydrogen held together by gravity.
What are STARS?
TRUE or FALSE: As energy flows, it increases as it gets passed from one organism to the next.
What is FALSE?
Energy actually DECREASES as it gets passed from one organism to the next.
____________ _______________is a greenhouse gas that is released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
What is created when hot air rises and cold air sinks?
What is Weather OR Wind?
Also acceptable: Convection Currents.
TRUE of FALSE: Warm air is MORE dense than cold air.
What is FALSE?
Warm air is LESS dense because its molecules are more spread out. Cold air is MORE dense because the molecules are packed together.
The __________is the closest star to Earth. It is 93 million miles (150 million KM) away.
What is the SUN?
What is the INITIAL source of energy for ALL ecosystems.
What is the SUN?
The changing of Earth's orbit, flow of the ocean's currents, the Sun cooling down, and volcanic eruptions are all things that impact climate change and are controlled by...
What is NATURE?
TRUE or FALSE: Wind travels from areas of High pressure to areas of Low pressure.
What is TRUE?
________________is important because many different organisms provide people with food, and supply raw materials for clothing and medicine, and other products.
DAILY DOUBLE: 600 points!
What is BIODIVERSITY?
It takes Earth ________hours to complete a rotation.
This rotation causes DAY and __________.
DAILY DOUBLE - 600 points!
What is 24 hours?
This rotation causes DAY and NIGHT.
A ________________is an organism that is capable of producing food through the process of PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
What is a PRODUCER?
What 2 forces are the biggest causes of climate change?
What is NATURE and HUMANS?
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What happens to AIR TEMPERATURE as you travel up in latitude and in elevation?
The air temperature decreases or goes down.
What is the DIFFERENCE between WEATHERING and EROSION?
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What is - WEATHERING is the break down of rocks into smaller fragments and EROSION is the removal of weathered rock to a different location?
The _______________is Earth's ONLY NATURAL satellite, and has 8 phases.
What is the moon?
The number of organisms of the same species that live in a particular geographic area at the same time is called a ___________________.
What is a POPULATION?
Name 4 things you can do to help take care of Earth and help to mitigate climate change.
What are ...POSSIBLE ANSWERS are...
Reduce, reuse, recycle, plant trees, eat less meat, eat more locally grown food, use less energy, use cleaner energy sources (solar/wind), carpool, compost, plant more trees, don't cut down too many trees, etc...
___________changes temperature more quickly than WATER.
What is Land?
At one time, scientists believe that all of Earth's landmasses existed as one large supercontinent? What was it called?
What is PANGEA?
____________from the SUN drives ______________patterns on Earth.
ANOTHER DAILY DOUBLE: 1,000 points!
What is HEAT (or Energy) from the SUN drives WEATHER patterns on Earth?
_______________is the living and nonliving factors that work together and interact in an area. This includes plant and animal populations and non-living environmental factors (air, water, soil, temperature).
What is an ECOSYSTEM?