Climate Change Flashcards
It brings about calamities that causes sickness or death and destruction of environment
Climate Change
Has effects to our lives and environment
Climate Change
estimated intensification of global warming
Industrial Revolution
causes of climate change
effects of the sun
effects of human activities
The sun is the source of all energy, heat, and light; living things need it to survive
Effects of the Sun
Many human activities increase the greenhouse gases that contributes to the rise in temperature
effects of human activtiies
traps heat, makes the earth warmer
greenhouse gases
most abundant gas in our atmosphere
water vapour
Comes from natural process like the breathing of living things and volcanic eruptions
carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide
Chemical that damages the ozone layer of the earth
chlorofluorocarbon CFC
Formed from the natural process in the environment
Methane
Formed from the use of commercial and organic fertilizers, nitric acid production, etc
Nitrous oxide
