Climate Change

Question 1

The deliberate planting of trees on otherwise bare land. Afforestation can create new habitats for wildlife, stabilise souls and prevent surface run-off.

Answer 1

Afforestation

Question 2

The growing of both trees and agricultural/horticultural crops of the same piece of land.

Answer 2

Agroforestry

Question 3

An organic compound.

Answer 3

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

Question 4

The long-term alteration of weather patterns.

Answer 4

Climate change

Question 5

An area where people are charged to take their cars into a city centre.

Answer 5

Congestion charge zone

Question 6

The practise of growing different crops in succession on the same land chiefly to preserve the productive capacity of the soil.

Answer 6

Crop rotation

Question 7

The cutting down of trees and forests to allow a different land use.

Answer 7

Deforestation

Question 8

A river landform made of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.

Answer 8

Deltas

Question 9

A long period of low rainfall that creates a major shortage of water.

Answer 9

Drought

Question 10

People who work towards or advocate the protection of the environment from destruction and pollution.

Answer 10

Environmentalists

Question 11

The rise in the average temperature of the Earth’s surface.

Answer 11

Global warming

Question 12

The retention of heat in the atmosphere caused by the build up of greenhouse gases.

Answer 12

Greenhouse effect

Question 13

The gases responsible for global warming - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and CFCs.

Answer 13

Greenhouse gas

Question 14

An organisation set up between government to monitor the causes, effects and management of climate change.

Answer 14

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Question 15

At the United Nations conference in Kyoto, Japan 1997, MEDC governments pledged to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

Answer 15

Kyoto Protocol

Question 16

The quality of land and soils are lower in quality.

Answer 16

Land degradation

Question 17

To move from one area, country or region to another.

Answer 17

Migrate

Question 18

Over farming which can cause a lack of nutrients in the soil, fertilisers are often required.

Answer 18

Over cultivation

Question 19

Huge areas of land cleared for cattle.

Answer 19

Overgrazing/cattle ranching

Question 20

A layer of gas in the atmosphere that protects the Earth from harmful radiation from the sun.

Answer 20

Ozone layer

Question 21

Moisture that falls from the air to the ground. Includes rain, snow, hail, sleet, drizzle, fog and mist.

Answer 21

Precipitation

Question 22

Rather than a whole area of trees being cleared, only single may require trees are felled leaving young trees to grow.

Answer 22

Selective tree felling

Question 23

The energy received from the sun.

Answer 23

Solar energy

Question 24

Energy from the sun - consisting of visible light, heat or infra-red radiation, ultra-violet and other forms of radiation.

Answer 24

Solar radiation

Question 25

The successor of the League of Nations, the UN was established in 1945 as an international organisation designed to keep peace, uphold international law and set standards in human rights.

Answer 25

United Nations