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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
9G Environmental Chemistry
Scientific Eye – Greenhouse Effect (20m).