Grade 10 Climate Change PowerPoint

Why might climate change mean that London and other major cities could become flooded in the future? (2)

What is the difference between climate and weather? (4)

Is the climate always the same? Give examples. (6)

What is climate change? (2)

What do recent scientific records show? Provide 3 examples. (4)

What impact will climate change have on: nature, wind, heat, food, pests, coral and sports? (7)

What is global warming caused by? (2)

(a) What does a Greenhouse gas absorb? (b) Name 4 greenhouse gases. (5)

Explain what the Greenhouse Effect is. (4)

Which human activity is the biggest culprit with regard to the production of CO2? (1)

Refer to Slide 14

Arrange the stages of the Greenhouse Effect in the correct order. Type the order of the events from 1 to 7. (7)

Explain why Venus is so hot. (2)

Describe the 3 stages in the Greenhouse Effect. (4)

Which of the following are Greenhouse gases? (Greenhouse gases: Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour.) (3)

How does water vapour heat the atmosphere? (1)

Define the term Global Warming. (1)

Complete the following: the term ‘global warming is now being used to refer

to: (2)

Why is Carbon Dioxide regarded as being the most significant greenhouse gas? (4)

How have human activities contributed towards the large amounts of Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today. (3)

Explain the carbon Cycle by referring to the diagram below. (8)

Refer to Slide 20

Complete the following table. Type the name of the component and next to the name type aborbs or releases. (6)

What are fossil fuels? (3)

How will the limiting of fossil fuels affect our lifestyle? (3)

Other than fossil fuels, what else affects Greenhouse gas levels? (3)

Data collected by climate scientists is used to answer two key questions. What are they? (2)

How are global trends in greenhouse gases measured? (3)

Slide 40

Refer to the graph

What is the trend in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide? (1)

Which factors have contributed towards the rising levels of carbon dioxide? (4)

What is the carbon sink? Explain fully. (5)

Refer to slide 29

30) Complete the following table. Type the processes name and next to it type consume or release . (4)

What are ice cores and what are they used to study? (6)

How have carbon dioxide levels changed over the years? (3)

Are temperature and carbon dioxide related? (2)

It might seem to make sense to say that the rise in carbon dioxide is causing the temperature rise but this is incorrect. WHY? (2)

Climate is too large and complicated to be represented in a lab. What is used to represent climate and explore the effects of human actions? EXPLAIN (2)

Refer to slide 39

Fill in the missing words: (Type the words one below the other) (7)

Climate modelling evolved from ________ used for weather prediction. These were created by ____________________, an English __________________.

When his work was published in ____, the predictions were ____ very accurate because the calculations took ________________. Richardson thought a hall full of people working on the calculations would be needed to keep up with the weather. What he really needed was a _________________

Where is the largest computer, used for climate modelling found? (1)

What is “distributed computing”? (1)

Visit the following web site: http://www.climateprediction.net/

What predictions does this project make from the simulation of climate? (3)

What are the arguments against using climate models? (3)

How are climate models tested? (4)

What are the predictions that the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have made with regard to climate change? (4)

What should be done about climate change? (8)

What can be done to lessen the effects of climate change? (7)

What does the “precautionary principle” advise? (1)

List 4 facts about effects of climate change. (4)