Climate Change - Science

Aim: To look at the causes of climate change and how to prevent it.

Climate Change video; The Facts video

As you watch the video answer these questions:

What is our greatest threat in thousands of years?

Sea levels rising destroying our crops.

How do we see climate change affecting the globe?

The world will not be a place where humans can carry on living and we

won’t have enough natural resources to live and to carry on our human race.

1. Antarctic ice melting - this means sea levels will rise and cause floods that will ruin our crops also the polar bears natural habitat will be destroyed and they will become extinct.
2. Trees being cut down - the amount of trees that are being cut down causes the oxygen in the atmosphere to reduce.
3. Littering - rubbish is being spread everywhere and being dumped into the ocean and the sea animals consume the rubbish. That causes us to lose our sea animals and they will soon become extinct.
4. More droughts and heat waves - this equals global warming, the earth will become warmer causing animals natural habitat to be ruined

 

Investigation

You can decide on how you would like to do this investigation. Your presentation could be on the blog, slides, or powerpoint.

Investigate the different Fossil Fuels listed?

1. Coal - Coal was one of the most used resources in the past. It was used for transport and that was good because people had transport and ways to get around but like to every human thing there are side effects. The side effects of using coal was air pollution, the factory's that burned coal were creating too much smoke in the air which isn't suitable for humans to consume.

Write a paragraph and upload an image about each of these renewable energies.

Solar

Wind

Waves

Hydro

Solar - Solar panels are objects that you will see around a lot these days mostly on peoples roofs of their house. Solar panels create energy but they project the energy from the sun, so the houses overall energy is ran off the suns power and not electrical power. This prevents climate change by being sustainable and inexhaustible.

Wind - Windmills are another source of energy that we can use. How do windmills generate electricity you may ask? well windmills have two or three propeller like blades around a rotor. The rotor is connected to the main shaft which spins a generator to create the electricity.

Waves - Ocean warming is making the waves stronger. The ocean absorbs most of the excess heat from greenhouse gas emissions which increases the oceans temperature. The increase of the ocean temperature is causing the waves in the ocean to become more powerful. That isn't good because it's putting coast lines at risk. Since the coast lines are a meeting point to land it can cause flooding which can ruin farming and crops.

Hydro - Hydro is compatible to the waves. Hydro power generates energy from water and any change in natural water circle caused by the climate change had and will have impact on the power generation. The effect of climate change on hydro power is mostly influenced by the change of the river runoff.

Write a reflection about what you have learnt about Climate Change and how it's going to affect the earth - 

I have learnt that there is more too climate change than just trees being cut down and pollution from cars and factory's. Climate change equals a bad future for every living this on this planet. Why? we won't have enough tree's to provide oxygen, global warming, sea levels rising and so much more.