Climate change
- Created by: laurend28
- Created on: 05-06-16 19:03
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- Climate change
- Climate
- The average weather conditions over a period of time
- Weather
- Day to day changes in the atmosphere
- Glacial
- Periods of colder weather/ climate
- Interglacial
- Periods of warmer weather/ climate
- Global warming
- The effect of greenhouse gases heating up the earth and increasing the world climate.
- GHGs
- Natural causes of GHGs are: Suns energy, Volcanoes, Respiration, Methane, Nitrous oxide bacteria from soil and lightning storms
- Human causes of GHGs are: Fossil fuels, Deforestation, Cattle farming-methane,
- The green house effect
- A layer of gases that keeps the earth warm enough to live on
- The enhanced greenhouse effect
- To much gas is surrounding the earth making it hotter and hotter
- Flooding in Bangladesh
- 2 Social impacts: Children died, No food
- 2 economic impacts: Villages collapsed- need to rebuild, people can't afford new houses
- 2 environmental impacts: Dirty water for people to live with, rivers clogged up with mud
- Climate
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