Climate Change

What are the 3 main fossil fuels?

• Coal, Oil, and Gasoline
• Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas
• Electricity, Gasoline, Petroleum
• Coal, Oil, Non-renewable Resources

materials in the environment that are useful to people

• fossil fuels
• natural resources
• renewable resources
• biofuels

natural resources that nature can produce again, such as tress, plants, animals, water, oxygen, and soil

• renewable resources
• nonrenewable resources 
• alternative energy source
• geothermal energy

natural resources, such as fossil fuels, that will eventually be used up and can never be replalced

• renewable resource
• biofuels
• hydroelectric energy
• nonrenewable resources

alternative energy sources

• fuels made from organic matter
• heat energy naturally produced within Earth
• sources of energy that do not come from fossil fuels
• materials in the environment that are useful to people

Primarily burned for the production of electricity.

• Coal
• Oil/ Petroleum
• Natural Gas

Responsible for 44% of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions.

• Coal
• Oil/ Petroleum
• Natural Gas

Some of the Earth's most fragile ecosystems that could be greatly impacted by climate change live in the

• tropical rainforest
• tundra
• oceans
• African Sahara desert

Which of the following gases DOES NOT trap heat?

• carbon dioxide
• nitrogen
• water vapor
• methane

Which of the following have been linked to climate change?  

• droughts
• flooding
• melting of polar ice caps
• all of the above