Climate change

• Biology
• Special Education

Climate change

Which problems do you
remember about climate change?

Most places on Earth are warmer than they were 100 years ago.?

1. True
2. False

Where have some of the strongest and earliest impacts of global warming occurred?

1. in the tropics
2. Impacts of global warming are distributed equally all over the planet.
3. in the poles
4. in the equator

How do scientists collect evidence about climate?

1. Using remote sensing from space with satellites
2. By ground-based measurements of surface temperature, carbon dioxide concentration and sea level
3. By collecting "proxy data" from tree rings, ice cores and historical records
4. all of the above

Some kinds of pollution in the atmosphere can act to cool the planet by reducing the amount of solar radiation that reaches Earth's surface.

1. True
2. False

If you removed the atmosphere's natural greenhouse effect, and everything else stayed the same, Earth's temperature would be:

1. 6 to 11°C warmer
2. 17 to 22°C warmer
3. 6 to 11°C cooler
4. 28 to 33°C cooler

Which of the following gases does not trap heat?

1. Nitrogen
2. Carbon Dioxide
3. water vapour
4. Methane

Today's warming is unprecedented in the last:

1. 1000 years
2. 100 years
3. 500 years
4. 2000 years

Which greenhouse gas is the main driver of Earth’s current warming?

1. Water vapour
2. Carbon Dioxide
3. Methane
4. Nitrous oxide

Tsunami

hail

Tornado 

Drought

climate.nasa.gov

Learn more about...

Tornadoes

A tornado is a narrow, violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground. Because wind is invisible, it is hard to see a tornado unless it forms a condensation funnel made up of water droplets, dust and debris. Tornadoes can be among the most violent phenomena of all atmospheric storms we experience.

Lightening

Lightning is a giant spark of electricity in the atmosphere between clouds, the air, or the ground. In the early stages of development, air acts as an insulator between the positive and negative charges in the cloud and between the cloud and the ground. When the opposite charges build up enough, this insulating capacity of the air breaks down and there is a rapid discharge of electricity that we know as lightning. The flash of lightning temporarily equalizes the charged regions in the atmosphere until the opposite charges build up again.

Hail 

Hail is a form of precipitation consisting of solid ice that forms inside thunderstorm updrafts. Hail can damage aircraft, homes and cars, and can be deadly to livestock and people.

Thunderstorms

What is a thunderstorm?

A thunderstorm is a rain shower during which you hear thunder. Since thunder comes from lightning, all thunderstorms have lightning.

When are thunderstorms most likely?

Thunderstorms are most likely in the spring and summer months and during the afternoon and evening hours, but they can occur year-round and at all hours.

How worried are you about climate change?

010

Which climate change phenomenon are you most worried about and why?

Write one thing that humans can do to avoid further climate change?

Write one thing that
you learnt today

Can you tell me the difference between green house effect and global warming?

Can you explain how the climate has changed in recent years?

Tell me one thing you can remember from this lesson?