Impact on Climate
Impacts on Land
How do humans contribute to global warming
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Impacts on Atmosphere
100

Long term average weather conditions.

What is climate

100

Contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to life

What is pollution

100

What is deforestation?

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use

100
What are two common ways of transportation that does not add to global warming?
Walking and Biking
100

This increases the pH of lakes and other bodies of water.

What is acid precipitation

200

A rise in Earth's average surface temperature

What is Global Warming

200

The development of land near a city, which leads to an increase in runoff.

What is urbanization

200

How are living things affected by deforestation? 

There is a loss of habitat which can lead to declining populations and even extinction.

200

How does planting trees help reduce carbon dioxide levels?

They take in Co2 and release oxygen via photosynthesis.

200

 A decrease in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere change Earth's average surface temperature?

It would lower the surface temperature

300

The natural process that occurs when certain gases in the atmosphere absorb and reradiate thermal energy from the sun.

What is the Greenhouse Effect

300

The cutting of large areas of forests for human activities, which leads to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

What is deforestation 

300

What has been happening to the size of the Amazon rain forest over the past 50 years? 

What is shrinking

300

What is urbanization?

What is the development of land houses and other buildings near a city.

300

The 3 main fossil fuels

Oil, coal, and natural gas

400

The most important of the greenhouse gases

What is carbon dioxide

400

Another term for farming, which leads to many forms of pollution from runoff

What is agriculture

400

How do forests contribute to the removal of greenhouse gases?

They respirate by exchanging Co2 for oxygen

400

What is an impact of pesticide usage?

What is the pesticides can runoff into groundwater polluting drinking water.


Pesticides can increase the amount of food grown

400

The thinning of the ozone layer leads to more of this in the atmosphere

Ultraviolet radiation (UV)

500

Global trends in warming, cooling, precipitation, wind directions, and other related measures.

What is Climate Change

500

This is the replanting of forests, which leads to a decrease in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

What is reforestation.

500

What is a consequence of deforestation

What is leads to loss of animal habitat, less carbon dioxide is being reduced from the atmosphere.

500

What purpose are rain forests primarily being cut down for?

What is for agriculture (or farming)
500

Deforestation, urbanization, agriculture, and the building of landfills all leads to a loss of.....

What is biodiversity