Global Climate Change
Go to "A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change" website. Click on the tabs indicated and answer the following questions. Be sure to either write the question and answer, or write your answer in a complete sentence. You can also explore the other animations and videos about global climate change. Additional directions are in italics throughout the webquest.
Click on Learn the Basics
1) What is the main reason the Earth is getting warmer?
Click on Learn more about the climate
2) What do scientists mean when they talk about global climate change?
3) What is the difference between weather and climate?
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and try the Climate Challenge. Click Next at the bottom of the page. Try the Climate Challenge at the bottom of the Today’s Climate Change page.
Click The Earth’s Climate in the Past
4) What connections do you see between the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the temperature?
5) What do scientists agree is the main cause of today’s global climate change?
Click on See the Impacts
6) What are three signs Earth’s climate is getting warmer?
7) How could these changes impact people?
Click on The Signs of Climate Change.
8) Click on 4 of the signs of climate change and summarize what will happen in the future.
Click on Effects on People and the Environment
9) Click on 3 ways climate change will affect people and the environment and summarize "What's at stake".
Click on Clues of Climate Change and follow the directions.
10) What are 5 of the 11 clues of climate change?
Click on What You Can Do.
11) Choose one topic and summarize strategies YOU could reasonably do to help!
1) What is the main reason the Earth is getting warmer?
Click on Learn more about the climate
2) What do scientists mean when they talk about global climate change?
3) What is the difference between weather and climate?
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and try the Climate Challenge. Click Next at the bottom of the page. Try the Climate Challenge at the bottom of the Today’s Climate Change page.
Click The Earth’s Climate in the Past
4) What connections do you see between the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the temperature?
5) What do scientists agree is the main cause of today’s global climate change?
Click on See the Impacts
6) What are three signs Earth’s climate is getting warmer?
7) How could these changes impact people?
Click on The Signs of Climate Change.
8) Click on 4 of the signs of climate change and summarize what will happen in the future.
Click on Effects on People and the Environment
9) Click on 3 ways climate change will affect people and the environment and summarize "What's at stake".
Click on Clues of Climate Change and follow the directions.
10) What are 5 of the 11 clues of climate change?
Click on What You Can Do.
11) Choose one topic and summarize strategies YOU could reasonably do to help!