Stratospheric Ozone
What is skin cancer?
What is global change?
What is ocean acidification?
Species that are likely to go extinct in the near future.
What are endangered species?
This has been the trend in global temperatures and greenhouse gasses over the past two centuries.
What is dramatically increasing?
Chemicals that can be used for cooling refrigerants and air conditioners that can damage the ozone layer in the atmosphere.
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
What is global climate change?
This compound found in marine organisms like shellfish, decreases as the ocean becomes more acidic.
What is calcium carbonate?
A non-native organism that spreads rapidly in a new environment, often causing harm.
What is a invasive species?
This is the largest threat to biodiversity.
What is habitat destruction?
These industries do the most damage to the ozone layer.
What are the refrigeration and air conditioning idustries?
Absorption of infrared radiation by atmospheric gases and reradiation of the energy back toward Earth.
This happens to coral as the ocean becomes warmer.
What is coral bleaching?
A US at that prohibits interstate shipping of all illegally harvested plants and animals.
What is the Lacey Act?
A secure facility that stores seeds from around the world to preserve plant genetic diversity and protect against the loss of crops due to natural disasters, disease, or climate change.
What is a global seed bank?
What is the montreal protocol?
This natural disaster puts large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is volcanic eruptions?
Ocean bodies exchange heat with this, causing the oceans to warm.
What is the atmosphere?
A 1972 US law that prohibits the killing of all marine mammals in the United States and prohibits the import or export of any marine mammal body parts.
What is the Marine Mammal Protection Act?
This is the name of unit 9 in the APES curriculum.
What is Global Change?
This is the largest hole in the stratospheric ozone layer.
What is the antarctic ozone hole?
This industry in the largest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions.
What is the transportation industry?
An international agreement that sets a goal for global emissions of greenhouse gases from all industrialized countries to be reduced by 5.2 percent below their 1990 levels by 2012.
What is the kyoto protocol?
A 1973 treaty formed to control the international trade of threatened plants and animals.
What is CITES?
A pledge by 196 countries to keep global warming less than 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels.
What is the Paris Climate Agreement?