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Week 15 Worksheet in GEC 103
Week 15 Worksheet in GEC 103
A.
1. How does climate change affect biodiversity? What can people and nations do to fix
climate change? 10 points
B.
1. What is Global Warming? How Global Warming may affect sea level, precipitation
patterns, plants and other organisms of food production. 10 points
Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth’s climate system observed since the
pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily
fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s
atmosphere. The term is frequently used interchangeably with the term climate
change, though the latter refers to both human- and naturally produced warming and
the effects it has on our planet. It is most commonly measured as the average increase
in Earth’s global surface temperature. Global warming is causing global mean sea
level to rise in two ways. First, glaciers and ice sheets worldwide are melting and
adding water to the ocean. Second, the volume of the ocean is expanding as the water
warms. A third, much smaller contributor to sea level rise is a decline in the amount
of liquid water on land—aquifers, lakes and reservoirs, rivers, soil moisture. This
shift of liquid water from land to ocean is largely due to groundwater pumping. As
temperatures rise and the air becomes warmer, more moisture evaporates from land
and water into the atmosphere. More moisture in the air generally means we can
expect more rain and snow (called precipitation) and more heavy downpours. Too
much heat that cause of global warming can burn the plant and also rising CO2 levels
and a warmer earth means plants will grow bigger and have longer to suck the land
dry. That's bad news for human water supplies.