Global Climate Change Objective Sheet

Global Climate Change – Objective Sheet Name ______Chs 6 and 18 Date ______Period _____

1. What is a carbon footprint? Explain factors included in a footprint evaluation and explain why one person’s footprint can vary from one evaluation to another. 2. List actions you can personally take to decrease the size of your carbon footprint.

3. Describe the greenhouse effect and what the Earth would be like without a greenhouse effect. 4. List the six greenhouse gases and identify the sources for each. 5. Compare the greenhouse warming potential of the 6 Greenhouse Gasses and evaluate which gas(es) is/are most important to work on controlling. 6. Explain seasonality on planet Earth. 7. Distinguish between climate and weather. 8. How do ocean currents affect regional climate? 9. Describe El Nino and La Nina events and their effects related to climate change.

10. How has the climate changed over Earth’s history? How many degrees C change creates an ice age? 11. Explain the Milankovitch cycle and how it relates to ice ages, interglacial periods and climate change. 12. How do climatologists study the ancient atmosphere? 13. Give several examples of how historical climate change affected civilization. 14. How long have modern climate records been kept?

15. What is the current global CO2 concentration? What is the significance of 350ppm? 16. What is the current global average temperature? Explain why a change of 1oF is a significant change

17. Summarize the projections of possible effects of global warming on food production, water supplies, forests, biodiversity, sea levels, weather extremes, human health, and biome distribution 18. Identify at least three events that have happened in recent years which may have been caused by climate change. Explain why it is difficult to prove that each of these events was directly caused by climate change.

19. What is the IPCC and what is its role in global politics? Describe the major trends reported in the IPCC report of 2013. 20. What is a GCM and how does it predict future climate trends? What are its limitations? 21. What positive and negative feedback loops may occur because of global climate change? 22. How might climate change affect the locations of the major biomes? 23. Explain how climate change will cause seal level rise and which mechanism is the most significant. 24. How does climate change factor into the tradeoffs associated with fracking?

25. Describe the Kyoto Protocol. 26. What is the current status of international cooperation on climate change? 27. Compare and contrast carbon taxes, carbon credits, and cap and trade programs. 28. Describe geoengineering strategies that have been suggested to reduce the effects of climate change. 29. Describe carbon sequestration efforts and technology. Friday Jan 23

Climate unit intro

HW – Carbon Foot print web activity due Jan 27th Mon Jan 26 Tues Jan 27 Wed/Th Jan 28/29 Fri Jan 30

Notes – Climate Carbon Penguin activity (No, regrettably, there will Stamp IPCC Part 1 basics Footprint due be no live penguins. I know, I’m sorry too.) Activity – IPCC HW –Carbon Notes – Notes: Current climate data from the IPCC Summary for Policy Footprint due Historical Makers – Reading tomorrow Climate Hand out rubric for IPCC Reading Project the technical stuff

HW – HUB HW – Part 1 IPCC Reading Project HW – Part 2 IPCC quiz – Obj #1- Reading Project 16

Monday Feb 2 Tuesday Feb 3 Wed/Th Feb 4/5 Friday Feb 6

Stamp IPCC Stamp IPCC Stamp IPCC Part 4 IPCC READING Part 2 Part 3 PROJECT DUE – Notes: Solutions to Climate Change Major Grade! Notes: Quiz – IPCC Modeling terms matching HW – Make sure all 4 parts of IPCC Reading Final written Future Climate practice Project are complete! reflection completed in class HW – Part 3 IPCC reading IPCC Reading project work HW – Study for test Project; study day Monday IPCC terms for matching quiz HW – Part 4 IPCC Reading Project Monday Feb 9

Climate Test – 50 multiple choice.