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crime and violence earthquakes erosion
flooding
food shortage
heatwaves
high tide
lack of affordable housing lack of public green space lower water table
Observing a Greenhouse Effect video
old and broken-down infrastructure outbreaks of disease
pollution
poverty
power outages
rising sea level
saline intrusion in paddies and aquifer storms, tornados
unemployment
waste
water shortage
The following words and phrases are key to the video, “Climate Change Basics,” which you may access at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScX29WBJI3w
Step One: Match the number for these six words to the definitions that follow below:
Definitions
____ The problem of the gradual rise in temperature of the earth’s atmosphere, caused by an increase of gases such as carbon dioxide in the air surrounding the earth, which trap the heat of the sun.
____ A gas exhaled by people and animals from the lungs or produced by burning carbon.
____ The increase in temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and other adverse changes that are caused by the increase of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide.
____ All the plants and living creatures in a particular area considered in relation to their physical environment.
____ Fuels such as coal and oil, that were formed over millions of years from the remains of animals and plants.
____ A plant or animal that is no longer in existence.
Step Two: Examine the diagram below and discuss with classmates.
Word bank
1. ecosystem
3. fossil fuel
5. greenhouse effect
2. extinct
4. climate change 6. carbon dioxide
The Greenhouse Effect
CO2 and other gases in the atmosphere trap heat , keeping the earth warm
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Some of the sunlight that hits the earth is reflected