Climate change concept map
Eyrún Waageにより
1. Greenhouse effect
1.1. Fossil fuels
1.2. Methane from produced by cattle farming
1.3. Defoerstation
2. Hydrosphere
2.1. Water
2.2. salt water from the sea and fresh waters from rivers
2.3. Living things need water to survive
3. Athmosphere
3.1. Influences climate
3.2. Oxygen is one necessary for life
3.3. Plants need C=2 for photosynthesis
4. Biosphere
4.1. Living things
4.2. Maintains balance in the systems
4.3. Plants transform energy from the sun into food and oxygen, Animals provise food, power for work, and company, Fungi transforms organig matter
5. The Earth´s interrelated systems
6. How are Earth´s system impacted by climate change?
7. Impacts on Earth system
7.1. Higher temperature
7.2. Affect weather patterns
7.3. Droughts and floods
7.4. Extreme temperatures and increased climate variability
7.5. Melting of poles and snowy peaks
7.6. Increased ocean acidity as more C02 is absorbed from the atmosphere
7.7. Rising ocean water levels
8. Is the air that surrounds earth, absorbs heat from sun and warms the earth
9. Gases, water, methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and ozone
10. Greenhouse gases
10.1. Natural causes
10.2. Human activities
10.3. Deforestation
11. Lithosphere
11.1. Rocks that form earth
11.2. Provides materials for manufacturing and minerals and nutrients for all living things