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Global warming & carbon cycle

Global warming & carbon cycle

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Presentation

Science

9th Grade

Easy

NGSS
HS-ESS3-5, HS-LS2-5, MS-LS4-1

+6

Standards-aligned

Created by

Mya Raz

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Global warming & Carbon cycle

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Multiple Choice

What is Global Warming?

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Increasing temperature in Earth's atmosphere

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Decreasing temperature in a city

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Increasing rain rates in Earth

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Decreasing temperature rates

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Multiple Choice

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What are the main greenhouse gases?

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Carbon dioxide, nitrous dioxide, methane, water vapour

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Carbon dioxide, Water, Nitrous dioxide

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Multiple Choice

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Burning fossil fuels is one of the main causes for global warming.
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True
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False

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Multiple Choice

Global warming is caused by a phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect.

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Carbon cycle

Carbon dioxide in the air

Taken in by plants.

Eaten by animals (Animals return carbon during respiration)

Animals die (Decomposers return carbon)

Fossil fuels (burning -combustion)

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Carbon footprint

  • measure of the impact that all your activities have on the environment

  • amount of greenhouse gases

  • The world average is 4tonnes of carbon dioxide/person/year

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Multiple Choice

Organisms that do not decompose can be buried and become what?
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water
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nutrients
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air
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fossil fuels

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Multiple Choice

How do living organisms return carbon to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle?
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respiration and photosynthesis
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 decomposition and respiration

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Multiple Choice

What does not produce carbon dioxide?
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Photosynthesis
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Burning Fossil Fuels
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Animal respiration
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Plants decaying

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Multiple Choice

Which one of these does not add CO2 to the atmosphere?
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cooking with gas
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planting trees
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burning wood
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riding in a bus

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