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Refers to the increase in the planet's overall average temperature in recent decades.
Global Warming
How does a volcano releasing large amounts of ash immediately impact climate?
Short Term: Temporarily cooling
(Ash blocks the sun's heat)
Name something that humans do that cause excess greenhouse gases?
(Listed 4 in our notes.)
Burning Fossil Fuels
Industrial processes
Agricultural Activities
Transportation
Greenhouse gasses are doing what to our sea levels?
Rising Sea Levels
What gasses do plants absorb and release?
Absorb - Carbon Dioxide CO2
Release - Oxygen O
Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (carbon dioxide CO2, methane CH4, nitrous oxide N2O, and fluorinated gases).
Greenhouse Gasses
How does a volcano releasing large amounts of ash and gasses impact climate over time?
Long Term: Global Warming
How does deforestation contribute to more greenhouse gases?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is not able to get absorbed by trees that no longer exist.
Greenhouse gases are doing what to temperatures on Earth?
Causing temperatures to rise.
What gasses do animals absorb and release?
Absorb - Oxygen O
Release - Carbon Dioxide CO2
A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
Fossil Fuels
How do ocean currents moving warmer temperatures from Equator to the Poles impact climate?
Major Global Climate Change
How does urbanization contribute to greenhouse gases?
Urban Heat Island Effect: Urban areas experience higher temperatures because the buildings, roads and other structures that absorb heat and holding it.
How do greenhouse gases impact organisms in an ecosystem?
Organisms are having to adapt or move or they will die.
True or False:
Humans using vehicles, trains or air planes are contributing to greenhouse gases?
True
The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere.
Greenhouse Effect
What are long term impacts on climate when a meteor hits the Earth's surface?
Long Term: Global Warming
How does agricultural processes contribute to greenhouse gasses?
Methane from cows.
Emissions from tractors, ect.
Fertilizer give off gas.
What is greenhouses gasses trapping in the atmosphere?
Heat
How was it possible that many years ago glaciers where able to form and cover large parts of Earth near the North Pole.
Average global temperatures were much colder than today.
Increased population in an area with the development of the land.
Urbanization
What are short term impacts on climate when a meteor hits the Earth's surface?
Short Term: Cooling
How do factories, vehicles, and power plants impact the environment?
They release greenhouse gases that contribute to the Greenhouse Effect/Global Warming.
What are the greenhouse gases that cause the Greenhouse Effect?
Carbon Dioxide
Methane
Nitrous Oxide
True/False:
Dam and levee construction is an ecological hazard.
True