Climate Change Impacts

What do scientist look at inside ice cores?

• Trapped bubbles that contain gasses

• Dirt

• How thick the layers are

• How many layers there are

Check the examples of how to reduce your carbon footprint.

• Turn off lights when not in room.

• Eat food that comes from your local area.

• Travel by car as much as possible

• Recycle instead of throwing everything in the trash.

• Use energy efficient lighting.

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Check the 3 main greenhouse gasses

• Carbon Dioxide

• Methane

• Nitrogen

• Sulfur Gas

Climate Change is best defined as....

• Complete loss or death of a species

• An abnormally large amount of species die out simultaneously or within a short period of time

• Change in global or regional climate patterns

• A dinosaur gets a cold

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What are greenhouse gases?

• gases that cause climate change

• gases that emit green smoke

• gases that are used to make green colored glass

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All of the following are known as heat-trapping gases, EXCEPT:

• Carbon Dioxide

• Methane

• Nitrous Oxide

• Oxygen

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The Greenhouse Effect __________________________.

• Traps all of the heat from the Sun

• Repels sunlight away from the atmosphere

• Traps some heat and releases some heat back to space

• only works in the summer months

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Human activities are __________________ the levels of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

• Increasing

• Decreasing

• maintaining

• fluctuating

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Mass extinctions are theorized to have occurred due to asteroid impacts, volcanism, and climate change.

• True

• False

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Throughout Earth's history, the planet has cycled through times of being covered by frozen glacial sheets during ___________________.

• snow days

• ice ages

• school vacation

• the Covid-19 pandemic