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NAME: Savion Young

Pd. 4 Date: 1/3/17

Climate Change Web-Quest


Directions- Go to: climate.nasa.gov and using the information of the website,
answer the following questions. Write your answers in the space provided.

Key Indicators
1) What is carbon dioxide (CO2) and where does it usually come from?
-Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important heat-trapping (greenhouse) gas, which is
released through human activities such as deforestation and burning fossil fuels, as
well as natural processes such as respiration and volcanic eruptions.

2) According to the CO2 charts, what was the highest level of CO2 in the 400,000 years
prior to 1950?
-280 CO2

3) According to the charts, what is the level of CO2 today?


-400 CO2

4) Based on the information on the page, why is this level of CO2 a problem?
- Along with other gases such as methane and water vapor, carbon dioxide is a
greenhouse gas. It absorbs heat energy and prevents it escaping from the Earth's
surface into space.

5) According to the charts on Arctic Sea Ice, what has been the overall trend since 1980?
- The animated time series below shows the annual Arctic sea ice minimum since
1979, based on satellite observations.

6) What trend can be observed for land ice?


- Data from NASA's GRACE satellites show that the land ice sheets in both
Antarctica and Greenland are losing mass.

7) What trend can be observed for sea level?


- Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the
added water from melting land ice and the expansion of sea water as it warms.

8) What overall conclusion can you make based on the data of these three charts?
- All of them have been increasing from the 1900s to 2015.

Evidence
9) What are eight areas that scientists look at for evidence of global warming?
It is based on the comparison of atmospheric samples contained in ice cores and
more recent direct measurements, provides evidence that atmospheric CO2 has
increased since the Industrial Revolution.

Causes
10) What are the five common gases that cause global warming?
--Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous oxide, Fluorinated gases, cfcs

Effects
11) According to the effects page, what effect will climate change have on water
availability?
- Conserving water, food and other resources is an important step towards reducing
overall energy use, because most everything that is made, transported and thrown
away requires the use of fuel and water. By carpooling, using public transportation,
driving less, and reducing our consumption of food and consumer goods, each
individual can make an impact on curbing greenhouse gases.
12) What visible changes have already occurred due to climate change?
-Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment.
Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and
animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.

Consensus

13) What percentage of scientists agree that climate change is due to human activity?
- Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over
the past century are very likely due to human activities, and most of the leading
scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this
position.

Innovations
14) Describe three innovations in energy that could help the world become independent
of fossil fuels.

-Bikes
-Solar Backpacks
-Self cooling can

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