Social Studies

Question 1

Cap and trade system

Answer 1

cap and trade system sets limits on the total amount of emissions that companies can emit. Bigger companies can buy permits from smaller comps. to emit more carbon

Question 2

Adaptation

Answer 2

Adaption is a response to climate change that focuses on adjusting to its effects.

Question 3

Carbon dioxide

Answer 3

A colorless greenhouse gas that is emitted into atmosphere that warm the earth.

Question 4

Carbon footprint

Answer 4

A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide and methane) that is produced.

Question 5

Carbon taxes

Answer 5

carbon taxes require emitters to pay fees for the amount of Carbon Dioxide the emiters can emit. (Europe gas is very expenseive

Question 5

Climate change (global warming)

Answer 5

A significant shift in temperature rainfall, wind and others, is climate change)

Question 6

Climate change refugees

Answer 6

Refuegees fleeing from negative climate change impacts

Question 7

Deforestation

Answer 7

The process of trees/forests getting destroyed by humans.

Question 8

Climate justice

Answer 8

Getting justice for countries/areas that have barely any carbon footprint and are expirencing the impacts of climate change and countries that have higher carbon footprints dealing with consequences of it.

Question 9

Emissions per capita

Answer 9

the contribution of the average citizen of each country by dividing its total emissions by its population. This gives us CO2 emissions per capita

Question 10

Energy efficiency

Answer 10

Energy efficiency is the use of less energy to perform the same task or produce the same result and don’t use carbon dioxide (wind water solar panel energy)

Question 11

Fossil fuels

Answer 11

Non renewable resources that are formed over time and when burned release greenhouse gases ( CO2 )

Question 12

Geo-engineering

Answer 12

The use of technology to change the planets climate/enviroment for the better. Slowing climate change? (Solar panels, wind energy, sucking CO2 out of the atmostphere shooting chemicals into clouds.)

Question 13

Glaciers

Answer 13

Large masses of ice that have built up overtime which slowing slide/move (glaciers ,most specifically in the Himalayas in China are also melting, which may lead to 40% of the world’s population who live in the region to experience water scarcity. ) They increase sea level bc they are melting due to climate change

Question 14

Global Commons (tragedy of)

Answer 14

The global commons are shared areas that aren’t property (like the atmostphere O2 Oceans and Space) The “tragedy” is that countries use it up and take control of it so that others can’t use it

Question 15

Global North

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A geographical region mostly northern countries that are richer and were colnizers and emit more carbon and have caused the most climate change.

Question 16

Global South

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A geographical Region with countries mostly in the south (Disincluding Austrailia) that are poorer than the global north and were coloinized by the global north and are feeling the impacts of climate change

Question 17

Greenhouse gasses

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Greenhouses are gasses in the atmosphere that warm the earth.

Question 18

Greenhouse effect

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Because so much carbon dioxide is being released into the atmostphere and carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmostpehre warming the earth like a blanket and it is like a greenhouse does to trap humidty

Question 19

Industrialization

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the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.

Question 20

Infrastructure

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The basic structure of a place.

Question 21

Kiribas (Kiribati)

Answer 21

An island near Samoa, Fiji, and New Zealnad that has zero carbonfoot print and is expirencing the most impacts of it like flooding of their small island.

Question 22

Mitigation

Answer 22

The efforts to reduce the harm of climate chnage. (Geoengineering + Zero emmisions energy

Question 23

National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs)

Answer 23

The poorest and most vulnerable countries getting help with reaction to climate change.

Question 24

Polar ice cap

Answer 24

Ice caps in high-latitude regions are often called polar ice caps. Polar ice caps are made of different materials on different planets. Earth’s polar ice caps are mostly water-based ice

Question 25

Responsibility

Answer 25

Taking accountibility for actions

Question 26

Sea-level rise

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Sea level or ocean levels increasing level due to glaciers melting, and warmth causing it to rise.

Question 27

Species migration

Answer 27

Spcies migrating or moving locations in this case due to climate change

Question 28

Sustainability

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The goal of sustainability, Is to meet the economic and social needs of the present generation without compromising or depleting resources for future generations.

Question 29

Vulnerability

Answer 29

Being exposed to possibly attacked or harmed

Question 30

Water scarcity

Answer 30

Lack of water access in an area

Question 30

Zero-emissions energy

Answer 30

Energy forms that don’t emit CO2 (water energy, wind energy, solar panels)

Question 31

Zero-emissions

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zero emission is balancing between greenhouse gas emissions produced and greenhouse gas emissions taken out of the atmosphere.

zero emission is balancing between greenhouse gas emissions produced and greenhouse gas emissions taken out of the atmosphere.

Question 32

UNFCCC 1912

Answer 32

Made in RIO The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992 Earth Summit / signing of UNFCCC. It was preventing dangerous climate change

Question 33

1997 Kyoto Protocols

Answer 33

Recognizing volentary restrictions 1997, the Kyoto Protocol laid out clear emissions restrictions for 37 wealthier countries and reduction targets that poorer countries could volunteer. Limits GHG emissions, and reduction targets for poorer countries

Question 34

2015 Paris Climate Accord

Answer 34

(Replaced the Kyoto which was volentary) ALL COUNTRIES GN+GS in 2015, representatives from 195 countries agreed to create voluntary plans to reduce their domestic greenhouse gas emissions and provide countries for poorer countries to deal with the effects of climate change. (Creating volentary plans to reduce GHG)

Question 35

emissions

Answer 35

When fossil fuels ,such as oil or coal are burned, they unleash gas pollutants in the air known as emissions