Global Warming Study Guide, pp. 149-151
1) What are greenhouse gases?
Water Vapor, CO2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide (NOx), CFC’s
2) What have humans done to make global warming worse?
a. Use of _fossil fuels_______________________
b. __deforestation__and_burning of grasslands__________________
c. Cultivation of _rice_________________________
d. __inorganic___________________fertilizers
3) What has resulted from human activities?
a. Increased __CO2________ and other greenhouse gases
____________the global temperature
b. ___CO2________rises ___.05_______% every year
c. 20th century was the _hottest in the last 1,000 years___
d. _10_________warmest years with in the past __100______years
e. ______________ __melting____________ of ice caps
f. Retreating of some __glaciers__________________
g. __northward____________migration of some warm climate fishes
h. __bleaching_______________of coral reefs due to warmer water
4) What are the effects of global warming?
a. Some places will be _hotter_____ and __drier_____ others will be
__colder________ and __wetter_______________
b. Warmer __temperatures____ at higher altitudes will cause
_____decomposition
c. _weather____________extremes
d. Inability for some __plant__life species to survive due to
_climate__change
e. _____rising_______sea levels
f. __________________risk of infectious diseases
5) How can we reduce the threat of climate change?
a. Cut down on _fossil____________fuel usage
b. ____________________deforestation
c. Make energy _more efficient___and create__alternative_____ energy
sources available to _developing_____countries
d. Use__sustainable __________________ agriculture
e. Reducing government _subsidies_____for coal and oil and increase
them for __natural ____gas usage
f. Remove__pollutants___ from smoke stacks and vehicle emission
g. Slow ____population______growth
h. Reduce __greenhouse ___ gas production
6) What year was the Kyoto Protocol established?
1997
7)
What was the goal of the Koto Protocol for the developed nations such as
the United States?
CO2 emissions by 5%
a) What was the purpose of the 2015 Climate Summit in Paris?
The purpose was to make an agreement between all countries to
reduce greenhouse gases enough to maintain climate change below 2
degrees C.
8) How will global warming effect:
a. Human health
risk of heat-related mortality
Health risks due to
of infectious diseases
Health risks due to air pollution
b. Agricultureextreme weather events
flooding
in insect population
drought
animal deaths
c. The water supply- intrusion of salt H2O into fresh water aquifers &
other water sources
H2O supply b/c of
evaporation &
runoff from mountains
Droughts lead to less H2O supply
d. Sea level—
Beach erosion
Erosion of coastal wetland
Intrusion of salt H2O into fresh H2O aquifers
Flooding
Salt marshes could shrink
9) From the article on Metro-East Coast Region how high is the sea level
expected to rise?
¾”-3’
10)
How many degrees higher is the temperature supposed to rise by the
year 2100?
5-6 degrees
11)
In the study cited in the article “Impacts of Climate Change in the US”
, does the number of 90 degree days in New York City increase, decrease or
stay the same?
Increase
12)
What is wet deposition?
Any wet deposition like snow, ice, rain, freezing rain
13)
What does VOC stand for?
Volatile organic compound