The cards Question What is the greenhouse effect? Tap to flip Answer The effect of some gases in the atmosphere that keep Earth's surface warmer than it would be without them. Question What is global warming? Tap to flip Answer The increase in Earth's average surface temperature. Question Which elements is methane made of? Tap to flip Answer Carbon and hydrogen (CH₄). Question Which elements is carbon dioxide made of? Tap to flip Answer Carbon and oxygen (CO₂). Question Give one source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Tap to flip Answer E.g. living organisms, or burning fuels. Question Give one source of methane in the atmosphere. Tap to flip Answer E.g. living organisms, or the ground. Question Which is the more potent greenhouse gas: methane or carbon dioxide? Tap to flip Answer Methane. Question What are increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere leading to? Tap to flip Answer Global warming and climate change. Question What can reducing greenhouse gas emissions do to global warming? Tap to flip Answer Reduce its rate, and may even help to reverse it. Question Is the greenhouse effect the same thing as global warming? Tap to flip Answer No: the greenhouse effect is natural and lets life on Earth flourish; global warming is an increasing temperature. Question What is global surface temperature? Tap to flip Answer The average temperature of all the places on Earth's surface. Question How are global surface temperatures calculated? Tap to flip Answer From tens of thousands of measurements worldwide. Question Since when have overall global surface temperatures been increasing? Tap to flip Answer Since the industrial revolution, in the 1850s. Question What is an ice core? Tap to flip Answer A long cylinder of ice drilled out of an ice sheet or glacier. Question What do tree rings show? Tap to flip Answer The yearly growth of the tree. Question Give one source of evidence for longer-term changes in temperature. Tap to flip Answer E.g. tree rings or ice cores. Question What is sea level? Tap to flip Answer The average level of the surface of the sea. Question What are ice sheets? Tap to flip Answer Thick layers of permanent ice found on land. Question Why does a glacier move slowly downhill? Tap to flip Answer Because of the gravitational force acting on it. Question What is sea ice? Tap to flip Answer Floating ice formed of frozen sea water. Question What controls the average temperature of Earth? Tap to flip Answer Heating from the Sun. Question How does faster melting of ice sheets make sea levels rise? Tap to flip Answer It moves more water into the sea. Question Does melting sea ice raise sea levels? Tap to flip Answer No: it does not add water to the sea. Question Why does warming of oceans and seas make sea levels rise? Tap to flip Answer Warmer oceans and seas expand. Question What are particulates? Tap to flip Answer Solid particles and liquid droplets in the air. Question What is a contrail? Tap to flip Answer The white cloud-like trail behind an aeroplane, made of ice crystals. Question Give one thing that burning fuels for transport produces. Tap to flip Answer E.g. greenhouse gases, other pollutant gases or particulates. Question An electric vehicle burns no fuel. How can it still lead to fuels being burned? Tap to flip Answer Fuels may be burned to generate the electricity it uses. Question Besides when it is moving, give one stage of a vehicle's life that causes greenhouse gas emissions. Tap to flip Answer E.g. extracting resources, producing materials, manufacturing, or recycling and disposal at the end of its life. Question What is efficiency? Tap to flip Answer The fraction of the energy supplied to an object or system that is usefully transferred. Question What does 'streamlined' mean? Tap to flip Answer Shaped to reduce drag forces. Question What is infrastructure? Tap to flip Answer The set of facilities and systems that serve an area. Question Give one feature that makes a car use more energy to travel 100 km. Tap to flip Answer E.g. being heavier, or travelling at a higher speed. Question How should a car's tyres be kept so that the car uses less energy? Tap to flip Answer Inflated to the correct air pressure. Question Why does a car use more energy when it travels faster? Tap to flip Answer The faster it travels, the greater the drag force pushing back on it. Question What is carbon capture and storage? Tap to flip Answer Separating carbon dioxide from other emissions and storing it in deep underground locations. Question What is a drawback of carbon capture and storage? Tap to flip Answer It is very expensive. Question What is the energy industry? Tap to flip Answer All the industries involved in generating electricity or providing fuels. Question Give one way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industry. Tap to flip Answer E.g. using less energy, or switching to renewable energy sources. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage Key stage 3 (Years 7–9) Course KS3 Science Unit Climate change and greenhouse gases England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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