What is......? General questions Climate Change Vocabulary Multiple answers on climate change questions
100
A drought is a period of unusually persistent dry weather that persists long enough to cause serious problems such as crop damage and/or water supply shortages.
What is DROUGHT?
100
Carbon Dioxide
What rises and causes climate change? What is a test?
100
Fossil fuels are natural substances made deep within the Earth from the remains of ancient plants and animals. Coal, oil, and natural gas are the three main fossil fuels.
What are Fossil Fuels?
100
rain, drizzle, snow, hail
Name 3 forms of precipitation
200
Any gas that absorbs infrared radiation in the atmosphere.
What is GREENHOUSE GASES?
200
Atmospheric temperature
Global warming is blamed on the gradual increase of Earth's _________________?
200
It describes the average weather conditions in a certain place or during a certain season.
What is Climate?
200
Wind power
Geothermal energy
Solar Power
Hydroelectricity
Biofuels
Name 3 clean energy sources?
300
Trapping and build-up of heat in the atmosphere near the Earth’s surface.
What is GREENHOUSE EFFECT?
300
Sea ice is melting and habitats are changing as temperatures across the artic rise.
What is happening in the Arctic?
300
Any of all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere and reach the ground.
What is Precipitation?
300
Drought, Extreme Heat, Tornado, Cyclone, Hurricane
Earthquake, Tsunami, Volcano, Wild Fire
Winter storm and extreme cold
Landslide, mudslide, Thunderstorm and lightning
Flood and landslide
Name 4 natural disasters?
400
The total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2).
What is CARBON FOOTPRINT?
400
The coasts will flood and people will have to move
What effect will rising sea levels have on human populations that live near coastlines?
400
Smoke and Fog
What is Smog?
400
Ice cores
tree rings
glaciers
direct sampling
Name two ways scientists study Earth's past climate
500
Global warming is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns.
What is GLOBAL WARMING?
500
Every 3 to 7 years.
How often does El Niño happen?
500
A layer of gases surrounding a planet
What is Atmosphere?
500
Rising sea levels
Impacts on agriculture
Impacts of ecosystems
Impacts on human, plant and animals
What are 4 main global impacts of climate change?






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