Climate Change – Response to Texts
Think carefully about each question, and use evidence from the texts to support your conclusions. Write your answers in full sentences, and use explanations and examples where needed.
- What are two of the largest sources of climate change? Explain what they are.
| Source One:Greenhouse gases | Greenhouse gases are very effective because its the cause of many global panics such as climate change and more,it can also cause good things. |
| Source Two:Global warming | Global warming refers to when global temperatures increase or decrease in a certain time period or even more. |
- Explain what impact climate change is having on our environment. Include at least 2 examples.
| Climate change decreases the amount of clean water.
It also makes it that there are less rainy days but makes the days even more heavier than normal. |
- What are greenhouse gases?
| Greenhouse gases can be good and bad and they are a mixture of many different gases. Also they can be good to not make the temperature too hot or too cold. |
- How does deforestation contribute to climate change?
| Because when the water levels rise we will take down some trees so we can have more space and instead of just leaving lots of open areas they place pine trees(They dont always put pine trees in those certain areas)because they are always straight and don’t take up too much space |
- Why is it important to reduce our carbon footprint?
| (Carbon footprint means,when you make an action and you see how much greenhouse gases are exposed)I think it is important to reduce our carbon footprint because the more greenhouse gas released the more climate change will increase and it will reduce how much clean water we get. |
- Do you think we, as New Zealanders,are doing a good job of slowing down climate change? Provide at least 2 reasons for your answer.
| I don’t think we are slowing down climate change because I actually think we’re increasing it.I think that because the amount of carbon footprint we are doing is bad,also governments are not really trying to change anything,lots of protests have been going on just because of this. |