Climate changes
What global warming brings.
A hotter Earth
If Earth's average temperature keeps rising, many things may change.
What may follow?
What this lesson covers
The idea
Long-term changes in temperature, rainfall and weather patterns on Earth are called climate change.
A hotter Earth
If Earth's average temperature keeps rising, many things may change.
What may follow?
- Changes in weather patterns, melting ice and rising seas
- Nothing at all
- Only colder days
Chain of changes
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Climate change
Global warming leads to climate change: changes in weather patterns, melting ice and rising sea levels. These changes affect the habitats of living beings.
Global warming leads to climate change: changes in weather patterns, melting ice and rising seas. Habitats of living beings change.
Notes
Global warming → climate change: weather changes, melting ice, rising seas.
Check yourself
Global warming leads to …
Which is a result of warming?
Climate change can change …
What did we say causes more heat to be trapped?
- climate change — correct. Yes!
- a new Moon. The Moon's phases are unrelated.
- more gravity. Gravity is not changed.
- More ice forming everywhere. Warming melts ice.
- Melting ice and rising seas — correct. Yes!
- Shorter oceans. Seas rise.
- only the colour of the sky. It changes weather and habitats.
- nothing. It changes weather and habitats.
- weather patterns and habitats — correct. Yes!
- More carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels — correct. Yes!
- Less carbon dioxide. More carbon dioxide traps more heat.
- The Moon. Burning fossil fuels adds carbon dioxide.