1. 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.
2. List actions you can personally take to decrease the size of your carbon footprint.
3. Describe the greenhouse effect and what the Earth would be like without a greenhouse effect.
4. List the six greenhouse gases and identify the sources for each.
5. Compare the greenhouse warming potential of the 6 Greenhouse Gasses and evaluate which gas(es) is/are most important to work on controlling.
6. Explain seasonality on planet Earth.
7. Distinguish between climate and weather.
8. How do ocean currents affect regional climate?
9. 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 CO
2
concentration? What is the significance of 350ppm?
16. What is the current global average temperature? Explain why a change of 1 o F 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?
25. Describe the Kyoto Protocol.
26. What is the current status of international cooperation on climate change?
27. Compare and contrast carbon taxes, carbon credits, and cap and trade programs.
28. Describe geoengineering strategies that have been suggested to reduce the effects of climate change.

29. Describe carbon sequestration efforts and technology.
Mon Feb 9
Mon Feb 16
Mon Feb 23
Mon Jan
Tue Feb 10
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CH 7 PPT
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HW: Objs 1-10
Tue Feb 17
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Stamp Objs
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Lab
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HW Finish
Objs
Wed Feb 11
Wed Feb 18
Tue Feb 24
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Socratic Debate
Tue Jan
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Wed Feb 25
Wed Jan
Thur Feb 12
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Stamp Objs
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Ch 19 PPT
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Intro Lab
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HW Objs 11-
20
Thur Feb 19
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Greenhouse
PPT
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Carbon footprint presentation
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Carbon
Footprint
Activity
Thur Feb 26
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Review
Thur Jan
Fri Feb 13 (B)
Fri Feb 20
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Climate
Change
Socratic
Handout
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Climate change discuss
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ion
Fri Feb 27(B)
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TEST
Fri Jan
biomes climate greenhouse effect greenhouse gases ocean currents permafrost rain shadow effect weather
Carbon capturing and storage (CCS)