Global Climate Change – Objective Sheet
Chs 6 and 18
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Name _________________
Date _______ Period _____
What is a carbon footprint? Explain factors included in a footprint evaluation and explain why
one person’s footprint can vary from one evaluation to another.
List actions you can personally take to decrease the size of your carbon footprint.
Describe the greenhouse effect and what the Earth would be like without a greenhouse effect.
List the six greenhouse gases and identify the sources for each.
Compare the greenhouse warming potential of the 6 Greenhouse Gasses and evaluate which
gas(es) is/are most important to work on controlling.
Explain seasonality on planet Earth.
Distinguish between climate and weather.
How do ocean currents affect regional climate?
Describe El Nino and La Nina events and their effects related to climate change.
10. How has the climate changed over Earth’s history? How many degrees C change creates an ice
age?
11. Explain the Milankovitch cycle and how it relates to ice ages, interglacial periods and climate
change.
12. How do climatologists study the ancient atmosphere?
13. Give several examples of how historical climate change affected civilization.
14. How long have modern climate records been kept?
15. What is the current global CO2 concentration? What is the significance of 350ppm?
16. What is the current global average temperature? Explain why a change of 1 oF is a significant
change
17. Summarize the projections of possible effects of global warming on food production, water
supplies, forests, biodiversity, sea levels, weather extremes, human health, and biome distribution
18. Identify at least three events that have happened in recent years which may have been caused by
climate change. Explain why it is difficult to prove that each of these events was directly caused
by climate change.
19. What is the IPCC and what is its role in global politics? Describe the major trends reported in the
IPCC report of 2013.
20. What is a GCM and how does it predict future climate trends? What are its limitations?
21. What positive and negative feedback loops may occur because of global climate change?
22. How might climate change affect the locations of the major biomes?
23. Explain how climate change will cause seal level rise and which mechanism is the most
significant.
24. How does climate change factor into the tradeoffs associated with fracking?
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Describe the Kyoto Protocol.
What is the current status of international cooperation on climate change?
Compare and contrast carbon taxes, carbon credits, and cap and trade programs.
Describe geoengineering strategies that have been suggested to reduce the effects of climate
change.
29. Describe carbon sequestration efforts and technology.
Friday Jan 23
Climate unit intro
HW – Carbon Foot
print web activity
due Jan 27th
Mon Jan 26
Tues Jan 27
Wed/Th Jan 28/29
Fri Jan 30
Notes – Climate
basics
Carbon
Footprint due
Penguin activity (No, regrettably, there will
be no live penguins. I know, I’m sorry too.)
Stamp IPCC Part 1
HW –Carbon
Footprint due
tomorrow
Notes –
Historical
Climate
Notes: Current climate data from the IPCC
HW – HUB
quiz – Obj #116
HW – Part 1 IPCC Reading Project
HW – Part 2 IPCC
Reading Project
Monday Feb 2
Tuesday Feb 3
Wed/Th Feb 4/5
Friday Feb 6
Stamp IPCC
Part 2
Stamp IPCC
Part 3
Stamp IPCC Part 4
IPCC READING
PROJECT DUE –
Major Grade!
Notes:
Modeling
Future Climate
Quiz – IPCC
terms matching
practice
HW – Part 3
IPCC Reading
Project; study
IPCC terms for
matching quiz
IPCC reading
project work
day
Hand out rubric for IPCC Reading Project
Notes: Solutions to Climate Change
Monday Feb 9
Climate Test –
50 multiple
choice.
HW – Part 4
IPCC Reading
Project
HW – Make sure all 4 parts of IPCC Reading
Project are complete!
Activity – IPCC
Summary for Policy
Makers – Reading
the technical stuff
Final written
reflection
completed in class
HW – Study for test
Monday