Global Warming Computer Lab
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Name:____________________
Period_____
Go to: http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/greenhouse/
• Watch the entire animation, reading carefully all of the details. Replay if needed.
• Draw three pictures below that best teach the process of global warming. Include
explanations in your pictures.
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4. What is Infrared radiation and how is it related to global warming?
5. What gases are involved in global warming?
Go to: http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/GBLWRM/climhme.shtml
Go to : http://news.opb.org/article/climate-change-melts-oregon-snowpack/
• These articles are about how Global Warming might affect the Pacific Northwest (in other words, us)
6. Describe at 3 impacts of global warming for the Pacific Northwest in detail below.
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7. Explain whether you think these things will directly impact you. Defend your answer with
examples of your own.
Go to: http://environment.about.com/od/globalwarming/tp/globalwarmtips.htm
• You will notice that this top ten list is not the same as the top five list from the previous link.
Read each step.
8. Which steps can you take now, at your age?
Go to: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/09/climate_100.html
• Skim through the huge list of Top 100 Effects of Global Warming.
9. List your top 5 of concern or entertainment and why they make your list.
Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGZbiWy47bA&feature=related
Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2ceKlzF6Ak&feature=related
10. What has been happening to the polar ice caps in the north pole
Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCYhU5ISwI
11. Based on this video, what do you think will happen in Oregon if sea levels rise?