Global Warming Flashcards
Definition
A process of increasing the temperature of the atmosphere, sea, and land of the earth
Causes
- Green House Effect is a term used to describe the earth having a greenhouse effect above where the sun’s heat is trapped by the earth’s atmosphere
- However, due to the greenhouse effect, some of the heat that should be reflected off the earth’s surface is trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
Greenhouse gases
- carbon dioxide (CO2)
- nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
- methane (CH4)
- freon (SF6, HFC, PFC)
Human activities that increase greenhouse gases’ concentrations
- consumption of fossil fuels
- garbage
- fossil destruction
- agriculture and animal
Global temperature rise
An increase in the melting of ice raises sea levels, resulting in a decrease in land area.
Rising sea levels also have an impact on increasing bleaching and the extinction of various types of fish.
Weather
An atmospheric condition that occurs locally over a short period of time
Climate
Conditions of temperature, humidity, or the average rainfall pattern in each season in a year or even decades
Climate Change
Climate change
Definition
Phenomenon of changes in climate patterns that affect changes in weather patterns from an area to the world in the long term
Climate change
Impacts
- rising temperatures on earth
- changes in growing seasons
- changes in rainfall and dry seasons
- more droughts and heat waves
- melting polar ice
- rising sea levels
- damage to coral reefs
Climate change
Effects
The effects of climate change are very large on the socio-economic life of humans and other inhabitants of the earth
Sea level rise
The rise in sea level occurs because the polar ice caps are melting
Agriculture
Definition
Climate change causes shifts in seasons and changes in rainfall patterns
Agriculture
Impacts
- delays in planting
- failure to plant due to floods, landslides, or droughts
as a result, agricultural production decreases
Fishery
An increase in sea water temperature causes bleaching of coral reels. Seawater temperature also cause fishes to migrate massively to cooler areas. This phenomenon is detrimental to fishermen because their catch decreases
Global forestry
Effects
- grass and twigs dry out easily and burn easily increase in CO and CO2
Health
The impact of global warming on the health sector is the increasing frequency of tropical diseases, such as mosquito-borne diseases, outbreaks of diarrhea, rat urine and skin diseases.
Ways to prevent global warming
- don’t cut down trees indiscriminately
- do reforestration
- plant trees in the yard of the house
- use energy-saving lamps and turn off lights during the day
- reduce the use of private vehicles
Takakura method
- put the cardboard in the basket to keep it moisture
- put in rice husks which function to absorb water that is produces by waste. The husks were made to resemble pillows by sewing them onto netting
- pour in the decomposing bacteria
- place organic waste that has been chopped into the basket
- on top of all the layers, place another rice husks pillow
- cover it with a piece of cloth to avoid flies
- stir the mixture everyday so that the decomposing bacteria can decompose the waste evenly
