Climate Zones
You live in this climate zone
What is temperate?
We are currently in this period of the ice age
What is the interglacial period?
This gas made up 95% of Earth's early atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
Burning these has released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
What are fossil fuels?
A time when part of the Earth has permanent ice
What is an ice age?
You would find extremely cold temperatures, long winters, and very short summers in this climate zone, which includes Antarctica
What is polar?
This period of the ice age is very, very cold
What is the glacial period?
What are volcanoes?
Fewer trees means that the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere do this
What is rise?
Cutting down or destroying a large amount of trees
What is deforestation?
This climate zone is characterized by hot temperatures, high humidity, and lush vegetation
What is tropical?
These rivers of ice can move boulders
What are glaciers?
This gas makes up the majority of Earth's atmosphere today
What is nitrogen?
The atmosphere today contains about this amount of carbon dioxide
What is 0.038%?
The process by which green plants turn the Sun's light energy into food
What is photosynthesis?
In this climate zone, you would experience dry conditions and very little rainfall, often leading to the formation of deserts
What is arid?
The Arctic used to be this
What is a tropical rainforest?
These organisms helped change Earth's atmosphere by taking the carbon dioxide and changing it into oxygen
What are plants?
This analogy is commonly used to describe global warming
What is the greenhouse effect?
Describing natural resources that do not run out and can be replaced naturally in a human's lifetime
What is renewable?
This climate zone is famous for its hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, making it ideal for growing olive trees and grapevines
What is Mediterranean?
When scientists extract ice cores, they find this evidence to prove that the Earth's climate has changed
Possible answers: What is pollen? What is gas? What are fossils?
Animal shells are made of this, which is part of the reason carbon got locked up
What is (calcium) carbonate?
This is an effect of global warming
What is rising sea levels? or What is extreme weather events?
The use of one structure, idea or process to explain another (example: greenhouse effect -> global warming)
What is an analogy?