Climate change and greenhouse gases · Year 8 Science
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What do we call the natural process that helps keep Earth warm enough to live on?
Greenhouse gases and global warming
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What do the two parts of the word atmosphere describe? (atmo and sphere)
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What is the main source of heating for Earth’s atmosphere?
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Where are the greenhouse gases that keep the atmosphere warmer than it would be without them?
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What proportion of climate scientists agree that global warming is caused by human activities?
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What greenhouse gas is produced by burning fuels?
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What is the average temperature of Earth’s surface?
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How close is most of the atmosphere to Earth’s surface?
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Which of these are not greenhouse gases?
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What best describes the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere?
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Which human activity does not produce large amounts of methane?
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Order these greenhouse gases, starting with the one that is causing most global warming.
Greenhouse gases and global warming
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What is global warming?
Evidence for global warming
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What human activities produce lots of carbon dioxide emissions?
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What has happened to the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution in the 1850s?
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Match each word or phrase with its definition.
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Which of these is not caused by climate change?
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Which of these an example of climate change?
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How often to automatic weather stations record the temperature?
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What is global surface temperature?
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Which of these can be used to work out temperatures in the years before measurements were taken?
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What can be used to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere thousands of years ago?
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What would reducing carbon dioxide emissions do to the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
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A model of a bath filling with water can represent the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Match each part of the model with what it represents.
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Match the words about climate science to their definitions.
Impact of climate change on sea levels
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For how long have climate scientists being measuring Earth’s temperature?
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What is the change in sea level that happens twice a day called?
Impact of climate change on sea levels
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What is the cause of global warming?
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When did Earth’s global surface temperature start to rise quickly above its long-term average?
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What would cause Earth’s global surface temperature to start to fall?
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How is the sea level measured?
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What do satellite and tide gauge measurements show is happening to sea levels?
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How many ice sheets are there on Earth?
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What is the name of a large mass of ice moving very slowly downhill due to the gravitational force acting on it.
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What is not causing sea levels to rise?
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What happens to particles of sea water that causes oceans to expand?
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What do greenhouse gases in the atmosphere do?
Reducing emissions from industry
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What do we call the increase in Earth’s temperature caused by human activity?
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What is the enhanced greenhouse effect caused by?
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Which option includes most greenhouse gases?
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What is the type of chemical reaction that produces most of the greenhouse gases made by human activity?
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Where are greenhouse gases found in the atmosphere?
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What are greenhouse gases?
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How do UK’s greenhouse gas emissions today compare to its emissions in 1990?
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Put these contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in order, starting with the biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the UK.
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What is a disadvantage of UK industry using carbon capture and storage?
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Put the steps of carbon capture and storage into the correct order in which they happen.
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Switching from burning fuels to using electricity to heat our homes and for transport can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But what else must happen to do so?
