Understanding Climate Change

The Amazon rainforest acts like our planet's air conditioner by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing ______ back into the air.

Rainforests are being cut down to make wood, palm oil, and to clear the way for farmland, roads, oil mines, and ______.

Human activity has led to the release of a huge amount of harmful gases into the Earth's atmosphere, causing global temperatures to rise more rapidly in the last ______ years.

Polar bears need sea ice to hunt, raise their young, and as places to rest after long periods of ______.

Apes like orang-utans are under threat as their habitat in the rainforests of Indonesia is being ______ down.

Rising sea levels threaten nesting beaches used by sea turtles to lay their eggs, potentially leading to more female turtles due to the temperature of the ______.

Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has caused the Earth to warm by approximately 1°C. This is known as ______ warming.

The changing climate will actually make our weather more ______ and unpredictable.

Burning fossil fuels releases gases into the atmosphere that act like an invisible 'blanket', trapping heat from the sun. This is known as the ______ Effect.

Cows' eating habits contribute towards climate change by releasing methane, a type of ______ gas, into the atmosphere.

When cows eat, methane builds up in their digestive system and is released in the form of a ______.

There are almost 1.5 billion ______ releasing methane gas into the atmosphere.