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    Name: __________________

    Date: _______ Period:______

    Climate Webquest
    Go to the following site, read and answer the questions below on a separate sheet of paper.
    https://archive.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/basics/index.html
    1.Why is Earth getting warmer? greenhouse gases
    Click on the link “Learn more about the climate.”
    2. What is the climate in one area called? climate
    3. What is the climate around the world called? Global climate
    4. What is one of the most important trends that scientists look at when analyzing global climate?
    Pattern of change
    5. What is global warming? Greenhouse gasses trapping heat in the atmosphere heating the earth
    6. What do rising global temperatures lead to? melting glaciers and wildlife destruction
    7. Looking at the diagram “Climate Connection”
    a. What 4 trends can a warmer atmosphere result in? Melting snow warm oceans
    more evaporation changing conditions for wildlife
    b. What are the results of more evaporation? Wildfires and drought
    c. What are the results of warmer oceans? Stronger storms rising sea level
    d. What are the results of melting snow and ice? Earth absorbs more energy rising
    sea level
    e. What are the results of changing conditions for plants and animals? Shifting
    migration changing seasonal patterns
    Go back to “Learn the Basics.”
    Click on “Find out how and why the climate is changing.”
    8. What are greenhouse gases? Gas that traps heat in the atmosphere
    9. What is the concern regarding greenhouse gases in regards to global climate? It could kill
    wildlife start fires raise sea level among other issues
    10. Click on “The Greenhouse Effect.”
    a.Watch the video, and explain the process of the greenhouse effect. Sun emits sunlight
    heating the earth up to cool down the earth emits infrared radiation but the greenhouse gasses
    trap it in the atmosphere heating it up
    11. Click on “Greenhouse Gases.”
    a. What are the three factors affecting climate change in regards to greenhouse gases?
    Explain each.
    b. What is the most important greenhouse gas emitted by humans? Carbon dioxide
    c. From where do greenhouse gases come from? humans
    d. What is the most abundant source of greenhouse gas emission in the United States?
    Burning fossil fuels for electricity
    e. What does the Emissions of Greenhouse Gases Worldwide at the bottom of the page
    show? How much emissions have increased
    12. Click on “All About Carbon Dioxide.”
    a. Watch the video and summarize the carbon cycle and how people are changing its
    natural balance. It goes through the soil water plants and the atmosphere in a
    cycle but burning fossil fuels adds more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere then it
    can get rid of
    b. What are people doing in terms of carbon dioxide leading to global warming?
    Burning fossil fuels
    Go back to “Learn the Basics.” Click on “Learn how the climate changed in the past.”
    13. What clues tell us that the Earth’s climate has changed many times before? Clues in rocks
    trees ice and more
    14. What is the pattern revealed in the graphs? It spikes then decreases over and over
    15. Read the box to the right of the page. Why is today’s climate change different? Humans are
    rapidly increasing carbon dioxide emissions
    16. What are some natural factors that have changed the Earth’s climate in the past? Ice
    covering the earth or warmer periods

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