Calamity climate change vocab

Question 1

Define

Carbon cycle

Answer 1

The transfer of carbon from one store to a another

Question 2

Define

Carbon store

Answer 2

Where carbon is stored

Question 3

Define

Fossil fuels

Answer 3

Fuel formed from the remains of fossilised orgasnisms

Question 4

Define

Emission

Answer 4

The release of unwanted substances from the production of an item, usually a gas.

Question 5

Define

Deforestation

Answer 5

The act of destroying a huge mass of trees

Question 6

Define

Cattle

Answer 6

Animals that are domesticated for their resources they can produce

Question 7

Define

Milankovitch effect

(ME)

Answer 7

How the earth orbit around the sun, gets ever so slightly more epplitical, changing the amount of ultraviolet rdiation we recieve.

Question 8

Define

Radiation

Answer 8

Waves of high energy

Question 9

Define

Untraviolet radiation

Answer 9

High radiant enrgy waves often realeased from the sun, that can go through GHE, but is absorbed by solids

Question 10

Define

Infrared radiation

Answer 10

High heat energy waves, that are emitted by warm things, adn can be trapped by greenhouse gases

Question 11

Define

Greeenhouse Effect

(GHE)

Answer 11

When infrared radiation is trapped in our atomsphere

Question 12

Define

Greenhouse Gases

(GHG)

Answer 12

Gases that contriubute to the GHE

Question 13

Define

Global warming

(GW)

Answer 13

When the Earth’s average temperature is increasing per 15 years

Question 14

Define

Global cooling

(GC)

Answer 14

When the Earth’s average temperature is decreasing per 15 years

Question 15

Define

Recycling

Answer 15

The act of taking used material to be converted back into raw materials