Climate Change

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?

How do we see climate change affecting the globe?

1.   direct surface temperature
2.   loss of Arctic sea ice
3.   factory gases
4.   car gas/co2  

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 is made largely of carbon but also features other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.Coal has long been burned to create electricity and heat. The use of coal is increasing every year, in the world consumed over 6,000,000,000,000 kilograms of coal. Coal is the world’s largest source of energy for the production of electricity.
2. Oil, also called petroleum, is pumped from underground and can be turned into products such as gasoline and electricity. If your house uses natural gas for cooking and heating, this is a form of a fossil fuel that lies underground usually above oil.When oils are burned, they release unhealthy toxins into the air we breathe.

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

Solar 

Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity.Solar energy has been used by humans for a long time for uses such as heating, cooking food, removing salt from seawater and drying clothes.Solar cells convert light energy into electricity.The largest solar power plant in the world is found in the Mojave Desert, USA.

Wind

they generate there own fresh wind. Wind power involves turning energy from the wind into other forms of useful energy.Large groups of wind turbines are called wind farms. Around 80 different countries use wind power to generate electricity. Modern wind turbines usually have 3 blades which can reach speeds at the tip of over 320 kph

Waves

Hydro

Benmore is a big dam and is clean and makes the turbines make electricity.Hydropower uses the energy of moving water for a variety of useful applications. In 2006, hydro electricity supplied around 20% of the world’s electricity. A small number of countries, including Norway, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand, Paraguay, Venezuela and Switzerland, produce the majority of their electricity through hydro power.

Write a reflection about what you have learnt about Climate Change and how it is going to affect  

I learnt that climate change can change our life and our world that we live on.

What we can do to help is that we don;t use coal and petrol as much.