What is Climate Change
Methane and Carbon Dioxide are gases that contribute to the _________ effect.
What is Greenhouse
Sea Levels have risen around _______ in 100 years
What is 17cm
Melting glaciers are known as the Earth's __________
What is River of Ice
Due to climate change this certain animal (mentioned in slide) is forced to move southward.
What is the polar bear
Trees are an example of _______ sinks
What is Carbon
This term describes long-term patterns in temperature and precipitation rather than short-term atmospheric conditions.
What is climate
What is the main driver of the recent sea level rise
What is melting glaciers
What 2 natural disasters are caused by melting glaciers
What are avalanches and tsunamis
Animals move from there original habitats to find three things(mentioned in slide).
What is food,water and land.
What is renewable energy
This gas traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere and is the main cause of recent climate change.
carbon dioxide
Name 1 of the Canadian cities most affected by rising sea levels. (mentioned in slide)
What is Vancouver/Halifax
Where are most glaciers located?
What is Antartica?
If climate change causes warmer winters in some regions, does that mean migratory birds will eventually stop migrating altogether?(Yes/No)
What is No
When garbage in landfills break down they produce this gas.
What is Methane?
What place is experiencing the worst effects of climate change and is warming the fastest.
What is the Arctic.
This physical process causes ocean water to take up more space as it warms, contributing to higher sea levels.
What is thermal expansion
What Glaciologist was mentioned in the slide who stated that by melting glaciers we are “essentially cutting off that life-support machine to ourselves”
What is Jemma Wadham
Species often move to maintain their preferred climatic niche or needs. This term describes the ecological space that meets a species’ temperature, moisture, and habitat needs.
What is ecological niche
This method removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by storing it in forests, soils, or underground geological formations.
What is carbon sequestration
This framework, rather than temperature trends themselves, is used by climatologists to determine whether observed atmospheric changes are statistically distinguishable from natural variability.
What is detection and attribution theory?
This global process results primarily from steric expansion of ocean water and dynamic ice-sheet mass loss, particularly from marine-terminating glaciers, rather than from the melting of floating ice shelves
What is eustatic sea-level rise?
This cryosphere-driven mechanism intensifies global warming by lowering surface reflectivity, increasing net solar radiation absorption, and initiating a positive feedback loop that accelerates ice mass loss.
What is the ice–albedo feedback?
This climate-induced ecological response involves phenological shifts and latitudinal or altitudinal range redistribution, often resulting in trophic mismatches that destabilize food webs and reduce species fitness.
What is climate-driven species range shift?
This policy mechanism reduces greenhouse gas emissions by setting a declining emissions cap and allowing market-based trading of permits rather than mandating specific technologies.
What is cap-and-trade carbon pricing?