Use the PowerPoint on climate change to answer the following questions.
You may not copy and paste. You must use your own words and summarise.
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Why might climate change mean that London and other major cities could become flooded in the future? (2)
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What is the difference between climate and weather? (4)
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Is the climate always the same? Give examples. (6)
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What is climate change? (2)
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What do recent scientific records show? Provide 3 examples. (4)
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What impact will climate change have on: nature, wind, heat, food, pests, coral and sports? (7)
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What is global warming caused by? (2)
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(a) What does a Greenhouse gas absorb? (b) Name 4 greenhouse gases. (5)
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Explain what the Greenhouse Effect is. (4)
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Which human activity is the biggest culprit with regard to the production of CO2? (1)
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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)
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Explain why Venus is so hot. (2)
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Describe the 3 stages in the Greenhouse Effect. (4)
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Which of the following are Greenhouse gases? (Greenhouse gases: Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour.) (3)
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How does water vapour heat the atmosphere? (1)
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Define the term Global Warming. (1)
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Complete the following: the term ‘global warming is now being used to refer
to: (2)
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Why is Carbon Dioxide regarded as being the most significant greenhouse gas? (4)
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How have human activities contributed towards the large amounts of Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today. (3)
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Explain the carbon Cycle by referring to the diagram below. (8)
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Refer to Slide 20
Complete the following table. Type the name of the component and next to the name type aborbs or releases. (6)
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What are fossil fuels? (3)
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How will the limiting of fossil fuels affect our lifestyle? (3)
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Other than fossil fuels, what else affects Greenhouse gas levels? (3)
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Data collected by climate scientists is used to answer two key questions. What are they? (2)
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How are global trends in greenhouse gases measured? (3)
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Slide 40
Refer to the graph
What is the trend in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide? (1)
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Which factors have contributed towards the rising levels of carbon dioxide? (4)
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What is the carbon sink? Explain fully. (5)
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Refer to slide 29
30) Complete the following table. Type the processes name and next to it type consume or release . (4)
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What are ice cores and what are they used to study? (6)
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How have carbon dioxide levels changed over the years? (3)
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Are temperature and carbon dioxide related? (2)
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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)
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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)
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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 _________________
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Where is the largest computer, used for climate modelling found? (1)
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What is “distributed computing”? (1)
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Visit the following web site: http://www.climateprediction.net/
What predictions does this project make from the simulation of climate? (3)
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What are the arguments against using climate models? (3)
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How are climate models tested? (4)
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What are the predictions that the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have made with regard to climate change? (4)
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What should be done about climate change? (8)
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What can be done to lessen the effects of climate change? (7)
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What does the “precautionary principle” advise? (1)
