Anthropogenic Climate Change

Question 1

What are the three fossil fuels?

Answer 1

Oil, Natural Gas, and Coal

Question 2

How are Fossil Fuels formed?

Answer 2

-Start as Plankton
-Is Put under Pressure
-Becomes Kerogen
-Is put under Heat and Pressure
-Becomes Oil and Natural Gas

Question 3

How do the Fossil Fuels affect the climate?

Answer 3

-Number One Anthropogenic Source of Climate Change
-Combusted into atmosphere letting loads of CO2 out
-Creates a warming effect because more greenhouse gases are being let out

Question 4

What is the enhanced greenhouse effect?

Answer 4

Anthropogenic greenhouse gasses are causing more carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere therefore enhancing the greenhouse effect because the are more greenhouse gasses being made and the earth is heating up faster

Question 5

What are the impacts of global warming?

Answer 5

-sea level rise
-climate change
-hurricane will be more intense
-droughts
-heat waves
-longer wildfire season
-precipitation patterns
-frost free season lengthening
-arctic ice free
-animal geo shift
-extreme weather.

Question 6

How does the albedo change in anthropogenic climate change?

Answer 6

Because in a developed area of land like a neighborhood the albedo is lower because there is less stuff for it to reflect off of so the light just gets absorbed into the ground causing a greater temperature

Question 7

What is a positive feedback loop?

Answer 7

Creates conditions that speed up a process and/or amplifies an effect like how human keep amplifying the climate change through factories and the release of carbon dioxide

Question 8

What is a negative feedback loop? Provide and example…

Answer 8

negative feedback loop-creates conditions that make a process slow down and/or dampens an effect, tending to push a system towards stability. like how we create things like carbon tax, fast fashion, etc to stop global warming

Question 9

What is solubility?

Answer 9

The ability of an object to dissolve in a solute and form a solution

Question 10

What are pollutants?

Answer 10

Anything that contaminants and object
- CO2 contaminates the air
- Led pollutes water
- Ect.

Question 11

Alternative energy and renewable sources?

Answer 11

Any energy providers that don’t contain CO2
- Tidal Waves for example

Question 12

What are the global and local impacts of water crisis?

Answer 12

-Not everyone has access to healthy drinking water
-Due to droughts
-Due to contamination