Climate change lesson #1

Climate Change lesson #1

Multiple Select

What is causing the sea levels to rise (choose all the apply)

• heated water is expanding causing the oceans to rise

• melting ice bergs and sea ice

• melting glaciers

• melting ice sheets

Multiple Choice

Rising temperatures on our planet have happened many times in the Earth's history....with this said, this climate change event is very very serious because of what reason?

• The carbon dioxide levels will suffocate wild life causing mass extinctions

• the carbon dioxide levels are increasing so quickly that it is causing change to happen very quickly and nature cannot adapt as quickly causing mass extinctions

• there actually is no real problem...this is just a manufactured issue created to make gas prices higher for everyone

• the biggest problem is actually that the heating is unequal and this causes some people to have nicer weather than others

Multiple Choice

Is the Paris Agreement working? Why or Why not?

• Yes! Many countries are making big progress and the planets heating is actually slowing down because of their efforts

• No way! Although some countries are making some small progress it is just a drop in the bucket and big countries are not really even trying

• Yes! It just take a lot of time and we need to be patient and simply watch and see what happens.

• No Way! there is not really anything we can do about any of this climate change stuff because the problem is a natural cycle and that is just how it goes

Open Ended

Explain how you can contribute to the reduction of climate change in your own life.

Draw

draw or find an image explanation of the difference between land ice versus sea ice

Open Ended

Write an explanation for what you just saw in the short NASA video preceeding this question....be sure to describe not just the trend but give observations for specific years where you notice any "out of the usual" patterns.