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 the atmosphere? Tap to flip Answer The layer of gases that surrounds a planet. Question What are emissions? Tap to flip Answer Releases of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Question What causes Earth's natural greenhouse effect? Tap to flip Answer Greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere. Question What does the natural greenhouse effect maintain on Earth? Tap to flip Answer A temperature range that is optimal for life. Question What effect are human activities having on the greenhouse effect? Tap to flip Answer They are increasing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect. Question Does the atmosphere warm Earth by acting like a glass wall that traps heat? Tap to flip Answer No. Heat is not a substance that can be trapped; greenhouse gases keep the atmosphere warmer than it would otherwise be. Question What is global warming? Tap to flip Answer An increase in Earth's average surface temperature. Question What do temperature data show about Earth's average surface temperature over roughly the last century? Tap to flip Answer An unusual, rapid increase. Question What is a correlation? Tap to flip Answer A pattern in data showing that one factor changes as another factor changes. Question Data on rising temperature correlate with data on what? Tap to flip Answer Rising greenhouse gas emissions. Question Most scientists agree that what is causing global warming? Tap to flip Answer Emissions from human activities increasing the greenhouse effect. Question In science, what are data? Tap to flip Answer Observations and measurements. Question What is climate? Tap to flip Answer The average weather conditions for a particular location over a long period of time. Question What is climate change? Tap to flip Answer A long-term shift in weather patterns. Question What is frequency? Tap to flip Answer How often something happens in a given period of time. Question What do data predict about extreme weather events as global temperature rises? Tap to flip Answer They will happen more frequently. Question Is a single weather event evidence for or against climate change? Tap to flip Answer No. Evidence comes from the long-term pattern, such as more frequent extreme weather events. Question What is a natural resource? Tap to flip Answer A substance that can be found within the environment. Question What is a renewable resource? Tap to flip Answer A resource that will not run out because it is replenished faster than we use it up. Question What is a sustainable resource? Tap to flip Answer A resource that can be kept at a certain level for as long as it is needed. Question What is a fuel? Tap to flip Answer A substance we burn for heating things. Question Can transport that uses petrol or diesel fuel be sustainable? Tap to flip Answer No. Question Why is wood not always a renewable resource? Tap to flip Answer Trees do not always replace all the wood taken from them, and regrowing it can take many years. Question What is a carbon footprint? Tap to flip Answer The calculated total amount of greenhouse gases emitted by an activity. Question Do meat and plant-based products have the same carbon footprint? Tap to flip Answer No, they have different carbon footprints. Question What does sustainable mean? Tap to flip Answer Able to be carried out over a long period of time with little or no negative impact on the environment. Question What is a thermostat? Tap to flip Answer A device that controls the heating in part of a building to keep it at a chosen temperature. Question How can thermal insulators help with heating a building? Tap to flip Answer They can reduce the energy needed to heat it. Question How does better insulation help a building be heated from renewable resources? Tap to flip Answer It makes it easier to heat the building using only renewable resources. Question How does the temperature difference between inside and outside a house affect how fast it warms up or cools down? Tap to flip Answer The greater the difference, the faster it warms up or cools down. Question What effect does planting near a house have on the outside temperature on hot days? Tap to flip Answer It decreases it (and on cold days it increases it). Question What is landfill? Tap to flip Answer Disposing of waste by burying it. Question What is a waste incinerator? Tap to flip Answer A furnace that burns waste, often to generate electricity. Question What do incinerators and landfill sites release that links them to climate change? Tap to flip Answer Greenhouse gases. Question What does it mean to recycle? Tap to flip Answer To convert waste material into new products. Question Is recycling the most effective way to reduce waste? Tap to flip Answer No. Reusing and reducing are more effective; recycling is a last resort. 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 living sustainably 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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