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Mrs. Boorom’s Global Warming Packet
For FCAT WEEK Due: 4.25.14
Name: _________________________ Period: _____
TASK #1: Global Warming MAP:
1. Go to the site http://www.climatehotmap.org/ and complete the following:
Click on two of the following
IMPACTS
People
Example #1 ( Describe the
example of the impact of G.W.)
Example #2 ( Describe the
example of the impact of G.W.)
Freshwater
Oceans
Ecosystems
Temperature
TASK #2: NASA GLOBAL WARMING WEBSITE
Go to http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/ and answer the following
questions:
1. How much could the average surface temperatures could rise by the end of the 21st century?
2. Why Do Scientists Think Current Warming Isn’t Natural?
3. What do scientists study to detect history of greenhouse gases that stretches back more than
800,000 years?
4. Since the Industrial Revolution began in about 1750, carbon dioxide levels have increased nearly
_________percent as of 2009 and ___________________ levels have increased 148 percent.
5. What is global warming?
TASK #3: GRAPH the DATA for the annual Atmospheric CO2
concentrations from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii for every 5 years
since 1960 to 2000. The data is found at http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ftp/maunaloa-co2/maunaloa.co2..
Remember to label the axis and title the graph.
TASK #4: LAB
Data Collection: Once your experiment is set up, begin recording the
temperatures in the bottles on a table. Use the blank table below.
Time
Set up 1 = CONTROL
Just Water
Set Up 2 =
EXPERIMENTAL
Water + CO2
0 minutes
2
4
6
8
10
12
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18
20
Results
Graph your results on graph paper.
Discussion Questions:
1. What is different in the two bottles?
2. Describe what is happening in the bottle that contains the CO2.
3. How might you change this experiment if you wanted to know the effect of different concentrations
of CO2. Assume you have a method for measuring CO2 concentration.
TASK #5: The diagram below shows the greenhouse effect. Add the labels to the diagram.
http://www.rsc.org/images/CG2a_tcm18-137888.pdf
Diagram adapted from Climate Change, Dorothy Warren, Royal Society of Chemistry 2001.
Questions
1.
If the greenhouse effect did not exist would the normal temperature of the Earth be higher
or lower? By how much?
2.
Why might an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases be a concern? What
might be the effect of an increase ? Use the diagram to help you answer.
3.
Look at the list of greenhouse gases in the table below. List some sources of each gas.
^ Greenhouse gas
Possible sources
Carbon dioxide
Water vapour
Methane
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
and Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
(HCFCs)
Oxides of nitrogen (NOx)
TASK #6: HUMAN IMPACT? YES/ NO.
Read the article at http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-percent/2013/may/16/climate-change-scienceofclimatechange. Then give a summary of the article in fifty
words or greater and then give your opinion. Do you agree or disagree. Why?
TASK #7: Bill Nye Video
Watch the video at the following link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNrLoIVgcJo&safe=active and answer
the following questions:
1. Is the current rise in global temperatures natural or human made?
Explain your answer.
2. What does Bill use to help answer this question? From where?
3. How do the core samples tell us about atmosphere?
4. How much carbon dioxide is currently in our atmsbosphere?
5. Explain what trend Mr. Sander’s graph shows us.
6. Describe the relationship between the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere
and our global
air temperature. What does this indicate for our future?
7. List the greenhouse gases. What is it that they do?
8. Explains why it is a big deal to have more CO2 in our atmosphere.
9. List 3 things that you can do to stop the “ global chilling”.
a.
b.
c.
10. Discuss why the U.S. is largely responsible for global warming. 11.
What was the prime mover of the industrial revolution? Describe how it
works.
12. What was the price tag for industrial success?
13. Describe the Kyoto protocol.
Who signer and ratified the treaty?
Who has rejected the treaty?
14. Discuss what will eventually happen to our oceans .
15. Explain why ice is unique.
16. Discuss thermal expansion .
17. What behavior noticed in animals suggests that there is a global climate
change?
18. List some possible things that people could do to reduce the emission
of carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere.
19. Explain what can happen if we do not reduce the emission of carbon
into our atmosphere.
20. List Bill’s suggestions ( that we could do) to help reduce global
warming.
TASK #8: ICE AGES
Read section 17.3 “Ice Ages” and answer questions #1-4 from
page 470 in complete sentences.
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4.
TASK #8: COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT
Design a poster that captures the community’s attention in a
way that brings both an idea of why global warming is
important, evidence to support it, and one imitative in which
the community can have an impact in reducing global
warming. Use the back of this paper.