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Understanding Climate Change Causes

The document discusses climate change, focusing on its causes and consequences, particularly the role of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in regulating Earth's temperature. It explains how the atmosphere's composition affects climate and highlights the cyclical nature of carbon dioxide levels during glacial periods. Learning objectives include understanding climate change causes and describing its impacts.

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Understanding Climate Change Causes

The document discusses climate change, focusing on its causes and consequences, particularly the role of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in regulating Earth's temperature. It explains how the atmosphere's composition affects climate and highlights the cyclical nature of carbon dioxide levels during glacial periods. Learning objectives include understanding climate change causes and describing its impacts.

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The climate

change
The climate change
Learning objectives

1- To understand what can cause changes


in the Earth’s climate.
2- Describe the consequences of climate
change.
Earth’s atmosphere:
Is a mixture of gases, including:

 78 % Nitrogen

 21 % Oxygen

 0.93 % Argon

 0.03 % carbon dioxide


Greenhouse gases
Are gases in the atmosphere that reflects energy back to the
surface, causing the temperature to rise.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, because it acts like the


glass panels in a green house that keeps plants warm and
help them grow.
Examples of greenhouse gases:
 Carbon dioxide
 Methane (natural gas) Present in smaller
 Sulfur dioxide quantities than carbon
dioxide
 Nitrogen oxides
The effect of gases in the atmosphere on cli-
mate
 Life on Earth depends on energy provided by the light of
the sun.

 When it reaches the ground, this energy heats up the


ground and the water in the oceans.

 The ground and water reflect or re-emit most of this en-


ergy into the atmosphere.

 The carbon dioxide in the air ‘traps’ and reflects this en-
ergy back to the ground.

 So that over time, the surface of Earth is kept warm.


The effect of the amount of carbon dioxide on Earth’s atmo-
sphere:

 Without carbon dioxide, Earth’s atmosphere would be too


cold for most of animals and plants that live there.

 As the amount of carbon dioxide changes, the amount of


energy reflected back to surface changes too.

 This, in turn, changes the average temperature of the


atmosphere and the surface, which causes Earth’s climate
to change.
During glacial period:
- Carbon dioxide is trapped in large areas of ice
(less in atmosphere), and Earth cools further.
- This change in temp. of 5-8 °C takes around
10 000 years.
- If Earth warms, and ice melts,
then carbon dioxide is released into the
atmosphere, which helps further warming.
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The climate change
Learning objectives

1- To understand what can cause changes


in the Earth’s climate.
2- Describe the consequences of climate
change.
Homework
Workbook stage 8
p.160, 161, 162
&163

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