FT Topic 4: Climate Change and Environmental Awareness Flashcards
often referred to as the strongest typhoon to ever hit the Philippines
Typhoon Yolanda
refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns
CLIMATE CHANGE
the range of global phenomena caused by burning fossil fuels that add heat-trapping gases to the Earth’s atmosphere
CLIMATE CHANGE
Refers to the Earth’s upward trend of temperature since the 20th century
GLOBAL WARMING
describes how natural gases in the earth’s atmosphere reduce the amount of heat escaping from the earth into the atmosphere
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
The more of these gases there are, the more the Earth heats up.
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
Keeps the planet warm and prevents warm air from leaving the planet. Increase in concentration of greenhouse gases causes adverse global warming.
GLOBAL WARMING
CO2 is released into the air when forests are destroyed increasing the levels of long-wave radiation and trapped heat. Damage in the rainforests results to destruction of wildlife habitats affecting biodiversity.
DEFORESTATION
A thin ozone layer is maintained at the stratosphere as Earth’s protection from the sun’s harmful UV rays
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE (O3
is a reversal of the normal behavior of temperature in the troposphere in which a layer of cool air at the surface is overlain by a layer of warmer air
THERMAL INVERSION
is the major component of photochemical smog
- The PAN or peroxyacetyl nitrate
are caused mainly by pollutants from cars and industries result to chemical reactions involving sunlight, nitrogen oxides, and hydrocarbons
Smog (smog and fog)
the transporter of NOx into rural regions causing ozone formation in the troposphere which decreases visibility especially in elevated places
PAN
also known as the ‘warm phase’, it is a normal climate pattern that describes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean
EL NIÑO
it is the opposite of La Niña, the ‘cool phase’ which is a pattern that describes
EL NIÑO
