Earth

Cards (13)

  • The main greenhouse gases are
    -Carbon dioxide
    -Methane
    -Water vapour
  • The Earth atmosphere is made of 4 main gases these are
    -Oxygen -21%
    -Nitrogen -78%
    -Carbon Dioxide -0.04%
    -Argon -1%
  • Some Climate change conseqeuences are Extreme weather, Extinction/loss of biodiversity, food shortages, ice caps melting which leads to sea levels rising and habitat loss
  • The 2 main cause of global warming is burning fossils fuels beacause it release CO2 and deforestation beacuse it prevents the absorbtion of CO2
  • Complete Combustion- fuel + oxygen --> Carbon dioxide + water
  • Incomplete Combustion- fuel + oxygen --> Carbon monoxide + water
  • Incomplete combustion only happens when there is not enough oxygen
  • Biodiversity- the range of different species on Earth, including plants, animals and microorganisms
  • Endangered species- When there are only a few memebers of species left
  • Extintion- is the complete loss off all members of a species
  • Some ways to preserve biodiversity are:
    -Seed bank
    -Gene back
    -Replant trees
    -Restore habitat
    -Captive breeding
    -moniter species in the wild
  • Factors that cause extintion are:
    -Hunting/poaching
    -Introduced species
    -Climate change
    -Meteorite impact
    -Volcanism
    -Lack of food
    -Habitat destructions
  • Evolution- the gradual change of a species over millions of years