Climate Change and Global Warming

Question 1

Climate change

Answer 1

Large scale, long term shift in planets weather patterns or average temperatures. Earth has had tropical climates and ice ages may times.

Question 2

Evidence of climate change.

Answer 2

Rising sea levels 
Shrinking glaciers 
Seasonal changes 
More extreme uk weather 
Daily temperature increase

Question 3

Mitigation

Answer 3

When people reduce the causes of a hazard to their lives.

Question 4

Adaptation

Answer 4

When people respond to change to limit its impacts or to take advantages of the change.

Question 5

Examples of Mitigation

Answer 5

Carbon capture
Alternative production
International agreements

Question 6

Examples of adaptation

Answer 6

Reducing risk from rising sea level
Managing water supply
Changes to agriculture

Question 7

Natural causes

Answer 7

Orbital change
Volcanic activity
Solar output

Question 8

Human causes

Answer 8

Fossil fuels
Agriculture
Deforestation

Question 9

Global warming

Answer 9

Gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earths atmosphere; generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and the pollutants.