Worksheet No. 2. Answer the following
1. Define climate change
2. How do humans contribute to climate change?
3. How do you contribute to climate change?
4. What does GHG stand for? How do humans produce GHGs?
5. Why is it important to take actions against climate change?
6. What could you do to combat climate change?
7. List the impacts of climate change.
8. What is mitigation? How can we mitigate climate change?
9. List three things that you can do to mitigate climate change.
10. How are we adapting to the impacts of climate change?
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1. Define climate change
Answer: Climate change is a change in the pattern of weather, and related changes in oceans, land surfaces and ice sheets, occurring over time scales of decades or longer.
2. How do humans contribute to climate change?
Answer: Humans are increasingly influencing the climate and the earth's temperature by burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests and farming livestock. This adds enormous amounts of greenhouse gases to those naturally occurring in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and global warming.
3. How do you contribute to climate change
Answer: We humans are the main cause of climate change by burning fossil fuels, by cutting trees and by throwing garbage in ocean and seas.
4. What does GHG stand for? How do humans produce GHGs?
Answer: Greenhouse gases. humans produce green house gasses by burning fossil fuels for electricity, heat, and transportation.
5 Why is it important to take actions against climate change?
Answer: Decisions that we make every day about our transport and diets can help reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions (which cause climate change), and also reduce our risk of diabetes, heart disease, and bowel cancer.
6. What could you do to combat climate change
Answer: Speak up! , Power your home with renewable energy, Invest in energy-efficient appliances, Reduce water waste.
7. List the impacts of climate change.
Answer:The changing environment is expected to cause more heat stress, an increase in waterborne diseases, poor air quality, and diseases transmitted by insects and rodents. Extreme weather events can compound many of these health threats.