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Causes
Concerns
Solutions
Impacts on Weather
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Texas A&M
What is Mrs. Easley's favorite college?
100
Causes an excess of greenhouse gasses.
What is the human population?
100
Ice melting, Arctic and Antarctic animals loosing homes
What are concerns about the Arctic and Antarctic?
100
Plants take in CO2 and give out O2, so we should...
Protect vegetation.
100
Rising ocean levels, quickly warming climate, intense droughts and storms
What are examples of global warming?
200
Carbon dioxide, methane, ozone
What are greenhouse gasses?
200
Holes in the ____ layer are causing more of the sun's energy to filter through.
What is the ozone layer?
200
More hurricanes, floods, and stronger storms.
What are concerns about the heating of water?
200
To cut down on greenhouse gasses, we should...
Stop burning so many fossil fuels.
200
Intense storms and more humid weather.
What is a result of increased evaporation?
300
Exosphere, Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
300
Gases that don't react to physical or chemical change.
What are "forcing" gasses?
300
More extreme weather.
What are concerns of the slowly increasing climate?
300
Cars and such continuously produce excess amounts of greenhouse gasses, so we should...
Use more eco-friendly energy sources.
300
Tropical depressions, storms, and hurricanes form more easily.
What occurs with the heating of oceans and seas?
400
Any of a class of compounds of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine.
What are chlorofluorocarbons?
400
____ causes an excess amount of carbon dioxide when burned.
What are fossil fuels?
400
Sea life is slowly declining due to the growing ___ of the ocean.
What is acidity?
400
If you ___, then powerplants don't have to produce as much energy and create more greenhouse gasses.
Save energy (turn off lights when you leave a room, ect.)
400
What is the average temperature increase of the climate per century?
1 degree Fahrenheit.
500
Number of glacial retreats and advances in the last 650000 years
What is seven?
500
Changes in Earth's orbit path.
What results in temperature variation?
500
10 times faster the ice age recovery rate
The current warming rate of the Earth is?
500
____ cause water to become contaminated, and produces more methane than the Earth can take care of. Reducing ____ would not only reduce global warming, but benefit the environment.
What are mines?
500
Changes in air temperature, sea levels, oceans currents, and storm patterns occur because of?
Changes in ice and snow in the Arctic and Antarctic.