Aim: To look at the causes of climate change and how to prevent it.
As you watch the video answer these questions:
What is our greatest threat in thousands of years?
How do we see climate change affecting the globe?
- Greater heatwaves
- Stronger winds
- Greater floods
- Extreme sea level rises
What is needed to change history?
Stop any human activities that are making climate change happen.
Is climate change a man made disaster?
yes
Dramatic action must be made in the next 10 years to change it?
Why is our climate changing?
Because the world is getting hotter.
What is causing the warming trend of the climate?
Human activities
What is the main problem?
People are using to much fossil fuels.
What are examples of these?
Coal, gas, and oil
Burning fossil fuels releases what gas?
Carbon dioxide
How much hotter now is our world?
1 degrees hotter then prehistoric times.
What do we call this global warming?
Normally the sun will hit earth and then bounce back up into the sky but now since of carbon dioxide when the sun comes down and hits the earth it gets stuck in the carbon dioxide and it traps the heat in and the heat is warming the globe that is why its called global warming.
How is this affecting creatures / animals like bats?
The heat
What percentage of species are near extinction?
50 to 40 percent of animals are nearly extinct.
How is climate change affecting our weather systems?
It is causing all the earths ice to melt and it is starting huge fires.
1. Great heatwaves
2. Ice is starting to melt.
3. Greater storms
What is another effect of climate change?
Earths ice is melting and we are starting to get large fires everyday.
What will happen if the ice melts in Antarctica and the Arctic?
The ocean will rise greatly and the earth will start to get covered with water.
How does this affect people?
Our planet will get too hot and the human population will start to die out.
What other things affect oceans change?
The water levels are rising massively and the earth will start to get covered and there will be nothing left.
What does to much heat do to coral?
It can kill coral.
Why did some industries not want to stop burning fossil fuels?
Because they don't wont to lose money.
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Investigation
You can decide on how you would like to do this investigation. Your presentation could be on the blog, slides, or PowerPoint.
Write a definition, upload an image and list where these fossil fuels are mined.
- Coal/ a multi purpose black and sometimes dark brown rock which is normally found mainly in underground seams and used as fuel.
- Oil/ a liquid made from petroleum, especially for use as a fuel or lubricant.
- Natural Gas/ gas is a flammable gas, which is made out of methane and other hydrocarbons which you can find naturally underground often in association with petroleum and used as fuel.
Write a paragraph and upload an image about each of these renewable energy.
- Solar/ Solar panels absorb lots of heat from the sun which ends out turning into power that we use daily.
- Wind/ A wind turbine is a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into electricity.
- Waves/ Wave energy is produced when electricity generators are placed on the surface of the ocean.
- Hydro/ hydro power plants uses a dam on a river to store water in a reservoir. Water released from the reservoir flows through a turbine, spinning it, which in turn activates a generator to produce electricity.
Write a 6 sentence reflection about what you have learnt about Climate Change and how it is going to affect us.
I have learnt a lot about climate change over the last thew days but I think the scariest thing about climate change that I didn't know was how bad climate change can actually get and how bad it already is and another scary thing about climate change is that in a couple years if we don't start looking after our planet the whole human race including animals could be gone. Another thing that I find crazy about climate change is that if the world keeps getting hotter and all the ice keeps starting to melt in a couple decades we could be under water but what I didn't know is this is already starting to happen in Arizona 90 percent of there land is covered with water.
