grade 9 geography – unit 1 – state of the world – global warming ecological footprint...

Grade 9 Geography – Unit 1 – State of the World – Global Warming

Ecological Footprint

Greenhouse Effect

Carbon Cycle Definitions Did You Know

1 1 1 1 1

2 2 2 2 2

3 3 3 3 3

4 4 4 4 4

5 5 5 5 5

4.27 ha

What is the average

Canadian Ecological Footprint?

The maximum population size that can be regularly

sustained by an environment

What is Carrying Capacity?

The area of land required to provide the resources

consumed by an individual, city or nation.

What is Ecological Footprint?

Society's demand on nature is in balance with nature's capacity to meet that demand.

What is Sustainability?

Transportation, shelter, food, waste and water use

What are the elements of Ecological Footprint?

CO2, CH4, O3 and N2O

What are Greenhouse Gases?

Source of radiation (heat).

What is the Sun?

It is caused by humans activities emitting too much

greenhouse gases

What is Enhanced Greenhouse

Effect?

The unit describing the concentration of CO2 in the

atmosphere.

What is Parts per Million per Volume

(ppmv)?

Long wave radiation that is reflected from Earth into the

atmosphere.

What is infrared radiation?

Green plants absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and use it to

manufacture plant fibres, starches and sugars

What is photosynthesis?

People, bacteria, plants and fungi.

What are sources of carbon dioxide?

The amount of carbon in the Earth’s atmosphere.

What is trace?

Many people incorrectly believe it is only caused by

humans.

What is Global Warming?

Most atmospheric pollution (e.g., CO2, CH4, hydrocarbons) stays within this layer of the

atmosphere

What is the troposphere?

A reservoir that absorbs or takes up released carbon

from other parts of the carbon cycle

What is a Carbon Sink?

A reservoir that absorbs or takes up released carbon

from other parts of the carbon cycle

What is Carbon Fixation?

Oil, coal and natural gas that originates from decayed

plants and animals.

What is a Fossil Fuel?

A resource that can be used continuously without being

completely depleted because it regenerates itself

What is a Renewable Resource?

A human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases

What is Mitigation?

The process of change tobetter conform with

environmental conditions or other external stimuli.

What is adaptation?

The average household water consumption by one

person in Canada each day?

What is 300 L?

A financial or economic incentive to get emission

to the lowest possible level to make money.

What is Carbon Trading?

The percentage of Canada’s population living in the Great Lakes Basin?

What is 25%?

The Earth’s temperature without the Greenhouse

Effect

What is -18OC