Tag Archives: greenhouse effect

4.4 Climate Change

BioKnowledgy 4.4 Climate change from Chris Paine.

Global Warming – a video by NASA (5m 49s):

How climate change will transform the planet:

Fantastic computer model from NASA showing how CO2 emissions across the world vary in a year (2006 in this case):

The Gulf Stream explained (in a nutshell, 5m)

WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE?

How are global carbon dioxide levels measured? (3m 30s):

Measuring climate change (10m 30s):

Drilling back to the future (the importance of ice cores in 6m):

WHAT CAN BE DONE?

Mr W sings ‘seven ways to reduce carbon’:

Mr W also sings Climate Change Rap 1, Climate Change Rap 2 and Climate Change Rap 3.

A clip from Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth which includes ‘None like it hot!’

B11 Human Influences on the Ecosystem

For self-assessment questions, with exercises and discussions, just click on the correct topic at Biology GCSE & IGCSE Question Bank. The s-cool revision site lets you revise the topic, summarizes the topic & tests you on it. Skoool gives you a lesson, including progress questions, for each Biology topic but you’ll need sound on for it. 

B11 Revision notes in downloadable word format and here are key terms and some definitions: Key Terms B11

DEFORESTATION

EUTROPHICATION

Eutrophication – a short video from The Virtual School:

POLLUTION

GLOBAL WARMING

Mr W sings Seven ways to reduce carbon.

ACID RAIN

A lesson on Acid Rain from Mr Dare:

Here’s a short (less than 5 minute) video clip from BBC iScience – Acid Rain.

CONSERVATION

Science in Focus – The Human Impact – a 19m video and

What really happens to the plastic you throw away:

The Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch:

TEXTBOOK REVISION

IGCSE Biology: Coursebook, chapter 16, pp. 232 – 241

Air & Pollution

IGCSE Chemistry topic 11, part 2 – Air:

Traffic Pollution is a 3m 14s vid from BBC iScience. Science Bank 1 (Raw Materials): nitrogen & the distillation of liquid air can be found from 8m 31s to 10m 40s and BBC Short Circuit Changes in Atmosphere is a 19m video covering global warming.

TEXTBOOK REVISION

Complete Chemistry for Cambridge IGCSE, chapter 15, pp.212 – 215 & chapter 16, pp.234 – 235 & 238 – 239