Causes and Effects of Climate Change
Directions: Watch the video, do the exercises, then review the answers by having
students take turns reading aloud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4H1N_yXBiA
Fill in the blanks using the word list below.
Human activities from ____________ to overpopulating are driving up the earth’s
temperature and fundamentally changing the world around us. The main cause is a
phenomenon known as the ______________. Gases in the atmosphere, such as
____________, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons let the
sun’s light in, but keep some of the _____________ from escaping like the glass walls of a
greenhouse. The more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the more heat
gets_______________, strengthening the greenhouse effect and increasing the earth’s
temperature. Human activities, like the burning of ______________ have increased the
amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by more than a third since the Industrial Revolution.
The rapid increase in the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has warmed the planet at
an alarming rate. While Earth’s climate has fluctuated in the past, atmospheric carbon
dioxide hasn’t reached today’s levels in hundreds of thousands of years. Climate change
has consequences for our ___________, our ______________, our food sources and our
_______________.
heat weather water vapor
oceans pollution health
fossil fuels trapped greenhouse effect
Match the blue words below by filling in the definition number.
# word # definition
fundamentally 1 can be reproduced as quickly as produced, clean
phenomenon 2 rise and fall irregularly in number or amount
Industrial 3 to become less in size and importance
Revolution
alarming 4 a lung sickness that will not go away
fossil fuels 5 fog made heavier and darker of smoke and chemical
fumes
diminish 6 changes in manufacturing and transportation when
fewer things were being made by hand or moved by
human power, but instead by transportation machines or
in large scale factories.
smog 7 basic or essential
asthma 8 come from old life forms decomposed a long time ago
like coal, oil, and natural gas.
renewable 9 an observable fact or event
fluctuated 10 causing people to feel worried or frightened
Multiple Choice. Fill in the blank with the entire answer.
Oceans
In Greenland and Antarctica ___________________________.
a. coastal regions are flooded. b. the sea level is melting c. ice sheets are melting.
The extra water ______________________________.
a. causes sea level to melt b. causes flooding of coastal regions. C. causes flooding of
glaciers
Weather
Warmer temperatures lead to __________________________.
a. fluids b. draws c. droughts d. steam
Food
Growing crops becomes more difficult _____________________.
a. because the plants diminish b. because there is not enough water c. because there
is too much water d. because the animals run away.
Health
In urban areas the warmer atmosphere creates an environment that traps and increases
the amount of ___________. This is because smog contains ozone particles which increase
rapidly at higher temperatures. Exposure to higher levels of smog can cause health
problems such as asthma, heart disease and lung cancer.
Fill in the missing words with the word list below.
While the rapid rate of climate change is _____________ by humans, humans are also the
ones who can _____________ it. If we work to replace fossil fuels with _____________ like
solar and wind which don’t produce greenhouse gas _________________, we might still be
able to prevent some of the worse effects of climate changes.
renewable emissions caused smog fight
