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Understanding Global Warming: Key Concepts, Impacts, and Actions to Take

This comprehensive overview delves into global warming, focusing on its effects on the environment, innovative solutions, and actionable steps individuals can take. We explore the role of greenhouse gases, melting glaciers in Greenland, and the importance of potable water. The content also highlights various perspectives, from believers to skeptics, concerning climate change science. Entries from innovative energy solutions to personal actions, such as recycling and using alternative transportation, provide a holistic perspective on combating global warming.

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Understanding Global Warming: Key Concepts, Impacts, and Actions to Take

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  1. Jeopardy Global Warming Greenland & Potable Water What Can You Do? Believers or Skeptics? Innovation $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

  2. $100 Question from Global Warming The average rise in earth’s surface temperature

  3. $100 Answer from Global Warming What is global warming?

  4. $200 Question from Global Warming Gases that play a role in increasing Earth’s temperature

  5. $200 Answer from Global Warming What are Greenhouse Gases?

  6. $300 Question from Global Warming The burning of these increase the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

  7. $300 Answer from Global Warming What are fossil fuels?

  8. $400 Question from Global Warming The effect that allows Earth to remain heated

  9. $400 Answer from Global Warming What is the greenhouse effect?

  10. $500 Question from Global Warming It is the greenhouse gas that is increasing in atmospheric concentration due to burning fossil fuels

  11. $500 Answer from Global Warming What is carbon dioxide?

  12. $100 Question from Greenland & Potable Water This area is the fastest warming place on Earth

  13. $100 Answer from Greenland & Potable Water What is Greenland or the Arctic?

  14. $200 Question from Greenland & Potable Water This animal is being affected by melting glaciers

  15. $200 Answer from Greenland & Potable Water What are polar bears or penguins?

  16. $300 Question from Greenland & Potable Water Due to higher evaporation rates and a dryer atmosphere, this is an affect.

  17. $300 Answer from Greenland & Potable Water What are wildfires or droughts?

  18. $400 Question from Greenland & Potable Water As sea levels rise and mix with fresh water, the amount of this is decreasing

  19. $400 Answer from Greenland & Potable Water What is potable water?

  20. $500 Question from Greenland & Potable Water The Earth is covered by this much water (percentage).

  21. $500 Answer from Greenland & Potable Water What is 70%

  22. $100 Question from Innovation Wind energy and solar energy is an example of this.

  23. $100 Answer from Innovation What is alternative energy?

  24. $200 Question from Innovation These can be used in outer space to convert solar energy into more useful energy

  25. $200 Answer from Innovation What are satellites?

  26. $300 Question from Innovation Type of engineering where humans purposely manipulate the Earth’s climate to counteract the effect of global warming

  27. $300 Answer from Innovation What is climate engineering?

  28. $400 Question from Innovation The effect seen with snow or ice which acts as a mirror to reflect sunlight

  29. $400 Answer from Innovation What is the albedo effect?

  30. $500 Question from Innovation The smart house eco-principle involved with temperature, lighting, and gas consumption control

  31. $500 Answer from Innovation What is smart design?

  32. $100 Question from What Can You Do? Planting this would naturally consume more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

  33. $100 Answer from What Can You Do? What is a tree?

  34. $200 Question from What Can You Do? The process of taking a product at the end of its useful life and using all of part of it to make another product

  35. $200 Answer from What Can You Do? What is recycling?

  36. $300 Question from What Can You Do? This can replace a car/bus as transportation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

  37. $300 Answer from What Can You Do? What is a bike or walking?

  38. $400 Question from What Can You Do? These are a type of toilets used to conserve water

  39. $400 Answer from What Can You Do? What are dual flush toilets?

  40. $500 Question from What Can You Do? These light bulbs can be used to conserve energy

  41. $500 Answer from What Can You Do? What are compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL’s)?

  42. $100 Question from Believers or Skeptics? The increase in Earth’s temperature is a natural process unaffected by human activity

  43. $100 Answer from Believers or Skeptics? Skeptics

  44. $200 Question from Believers or Skeptics? Fossil fuels are the main contribution to global warming

  45. $200 Answer from Believers or Skeptics? Believers

  46. $300 Question from Believers or Skeptics? Increased CO2 levels is a result of Earth’s warming, not a cause

  47. $300 Answer from Believers or Skeptics? Skeptics

  48. $400 Question from Believers or Skeptics? Blizzards in Texas show the average temperatures are decreasing

  49. $400 Answer from Believers or Skeptics? Skeptics

  50. $500 Question from Believers or Skeptics? Greenhouse gases are destroying the ozone layer

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