GLOBAL WARMING - EXERCISES 1

1 ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR OWN WORDS !

The greenhouse effect turns the sun's light into ____________________________________________________

What is the most important greenhouse gas? ______________________________________________________
What are fossil fuels? __________________________________________________________________________
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What happens to our atmosphere when trees are cut down? _________________________________________
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How much might temperatures increase in the next one hundred years? _______________________________
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What could be the effects of this rise? ____________________________________________________________
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Name a few possible ways to fight global warming? _________________________________________________
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What are hybrids? _____________________________________________________________________________
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What is the Kyoto Protocol? _____________________________________________________________________
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Which important industrial country does not care about it? __________________________________________

2 TRUE OR FALSE

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The United States produces about 25% of the world's greenhouse gases.

Global warming was first discovered in the 1980s.

When you burn fossil fuels you let oxygen into the atmosphere.

Animals can adapt to hotter regions very easily.

Solar, wind and wave power are forms of energy that do not produce
greenhouse gases.

The Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997.

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3 MATCH THE WORDS WITH THE DEFINITIONS

A adapt to put your name on a document

B carpool gas and other chemicals that is sent into the air

C drought to become liquid

if you find out about something that nobody

D emission
knew about before

E environment to get used to a new situation

a large mass of ice that moves slowly down a

F flood
mountain valley

G glacier to agree to something or help

H sign to keep in and not let out

group of people who travel to work together in

I support
one car

J task reason

K trap long period of dry weather

L melt to go up

M cause when it rains a lot and water covers the land

N discovery job; something to do

O increase the world around us

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4 WHAT CAN YOU YOURSELF DO TO FIGHT OFF GLOBAL WARMING ! USE THE
GRAPH BELOW AND ADD ANY IDEAS OF YOUR OWN. WRITE AN ESSAY!
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5 WRITE A LETTER TO A POLITICIAN IN WHICH YOU ASK FOR MEASURES TO

FIGHT AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING!

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