The true cost of Power
Coal, oil, Natural Gas
What are fossil fuels?
The Agency that monitors the condition of the atmosphere.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency
The cutting down of trees to build new cities.
What is deforestation?
Solar, Water (Hydro), Wind
What are renewable energy sources.
The scale that measures the Ultraviolet radiation levels in the atmosphere, categorized by color and number.
What is The UV Index?
The use of aerosols is casuing holes in, or depleting, this layer of natural gases that protect the earth from radiation.
What is the Ozone Layer?
The greenhouse gas produced when Fossil fuels are burned.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Limit your time in the sun, hydrate, wear sunscreen and protective clothing.
What are safety measures and ways to protect yourself when the UV index is high?
The effect on the Earth's temperature as levels of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere increase.
The Earth's temperature increases (Global Warming).
Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the earths temperature have steadily inclined since the 1940s, largely due to the invention this.
What is the automobile?
Writing and enforcing laws about air pollution.
What is one of the ways that the EPA works to improve air quality.
Two ways that humans are contributing to the levels of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere.
Examples: Burning fossil fuels to produce electricity, emissions from cars, deforestation
The steady increase in the Earth's temperature as a result of rising Carbon Dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
What is Global Warming?
Car pool, plant more trees, find alternatives to aerosols, develop and use renewable energy.
What are ways that humans can protect the environment.
The coastal effects of Global warming and polar ice melt.
What are rising sea levels?