Use these resources in your classroom to help your students understand and take action on climate change. The weather you encounter day to day depends on where you live. Places around the Equator experience warm weather all year round, but experience alternate periods of rainy and dry seasons.
Places near lakes may experience more snow in the winter, whereas places on continental plains may be more prone to hail, thunderstorms, and tornados in the summer. Learn more about regional climates with this curated resource collection. An atmosphere is the layers of gases surrounding a planet or other celestial body. These gases are found in layers troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere defined by unique features such as temperature and pressure.
The atmosphere protects life on earth by shielding it from incoming ultraviolet UV radiation, keeping the planet warm through insulation, and preventing extremes between day and night temperatures. The sun heats layers of the atmosphere causing it to convect driving air movement and weather patterns around the world.
Teach your students about the Earth's atmosphere with the resources in this collection. Climate describes the average weather conditions of a particular place over a 30 year period. All places on earth have their own climates. Different from weather events, which are short-term and temporary phenomenon, climates are usually steady and predictable, and shape how organisms and human civilizations evolve and adapt in any given region. However, climates are not always permanent, and can change drastically due to human activity.
Explore the world's climates and how they affect local regions and the planet with this curated collection of resources. Carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas that drives global climate change, continues to rise every month.
Find out the dangerous role it and other gases play. Global warming is often described as the most recent example of climate change. Watch this brief, video picture of practice that captures everyday classroom life and provides real-life examples of how students learn and think about climate change topics.
Join our community of educators and receive the latest information on National Geographic's resources for you and your students. Skip to content. Twitter Facebook Pinterest Google Classroom. Article Vocabulary. The greenhouse effect is a vital natural phenomenon, intensified by human activity.
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Related Resources. Climate Change. View Collection. Regional Climate. View Infographic. According to a United Nations report, livestock is responsible for about The main sources of emissions are:. Higher concentrations of atmospheric CH 4 are also caused by changes in land and wetland use, pipeline losses and landfill emissions. The use of fertilisers can also lead to higher N 2 O concentrations.
Agriculture is estimated to be the main driver for around 80 per cent of deforestation worldwide. Source: Pixabay. Cement manufacture contributes CO 2 to the atmosphere when calcium carbonate is heated, producing lime and CO 2.
Estimates vary, but it is widely accepted that the cement industry produces between five and eight per cent of global anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, of which 50 per cent is produced from the chemical process itself and 40 per cent from burning fuel to power that process. The amount of CO 2 emitted by the cement industry is more than kg of CO 2 for every kg of cement produced.
Aerosols are small particles suspended in the atmosphere that can be produced when we burn fossil fuels. Other anthropogenic sources of aerosols include pollution from cars and factories, chlorofluorocarbons CFCs used in refrigeration systems and CFCs and halons used in fire suppression systems and manufacturing processes.
Aerosols can also be produced naturally from a number of natural processes e. For example, sulphate aerosols from fossil fuel combustion exert a cooling influence by reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth. Aerosols also have a detrimental impact on human health and affect other parts of the climate system, such as rainfall.
Discovering Geology introduces a range of geoscience topics to school-age students and learners of all ages. Climate is the pattern of weather of an area averaged over many years. We can only show whether climate change has occurred after decades of careful measurements and analysis. Temperature rises can affect agriculture, sea levels and the frequency of extreme weather incidents.
We can study past climate change by looking at the evidence in rocks, fossils and changes in the landscape. The carbon cycle describes the process in which carbon atoms continually travel from the atmosphere into the Earth, then released back into the atmosphere.
Carbon capture and storage involves capturing carbon dioxide at emission sources, such as power stations, then transporting and storing it underground. BGS is committed to research aimed at slowing down the effects of a changing climate, whilst helping society to become resilient to climate change. Anthropogenic or human release of carbon dioxide is what is contributing to an additional or enhanced greenhouse effect. Burning such fossil fuels produces CO 2 as a waste product.
Putting so much new CO 2 into the air has made Earth warmer. If we continue on our current path, we will cause even more warming.
CO 2 is a big part of the carbon cycle. The carbon cycle traces carbon's path from the atmosphere, into living organisms, then turning into dead organic matter, going into the oceans, and back into the atmosphere.
Scientists describe the cycle in terms of sources parts of the cycle that add carbon to the atmosphere and sinks parts of the cycle that remove carbon from the atmosphere.
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