Two main things that humans do to influence global warming are deforestation and burning fossil fuels. When humans cut down trees, the carbon in the trees is released into the atmosphere. Humans cut down trees to make furniture and other kinds of things. As more and more trees are cut down to satisfy the needs of furniture for everyone on the planet, more and more carbon goes into the atmosphere. This causes the greenhouse effect. The tempeture globally rises. Burning fossil fuels can also make the global tempeture rise.
1. DEFORESTATION: The process by which trees are cut down or removed.
2. FOSSIL FUELS: An organic substace made from the dead bodies of ancient animals such as dinosaurs.
3. PULPWOOD: A type of spruce or soft wood.
4. SAW LOG: A type of wood that is large to be cut into furniture.
5. FIREWOOD: A type of wood that could be used as fuel.
6. AGRICULTURE: The process of growing crops and to farm.
7. TRANSPIRATION: A process in in which plants give off water vapor.
8. PRECIPITATION: A process to turn water vapor into sleet, rain, snow, and more by condensing it.
9. CELSIUS: A type of measurement of temperature that reach from zero degrees to one hundred degrees and can be refurred to as centigrade.
10. EMISSIONS: Sending combustion able to discharge in air and is also a pollutant.
The future of Earth is very blank with global warming. But not all of it is caused by humans. Some scientists say that global warming is just a natural cycle the Earth goes through and that it does not exist. The way they prove their theory is by looking at past events, such as natural disasters. These events can go from volcanoes to astronomical anomolies.
1. VOLCANIC: Of, resembling, or caused by a volcano or volcanoes.
2. ERUPTION: The act or process of erupting; to become violently active.
3. ORBIT: The path of a celestial body, or of an artificial satillite, as it revolves around another body.
4. ORIENTATION: The location or position relative to the compass points.
5. SUNSPOTS: Any of the relativly cool dark spots that appear periodically in groups on the surface of the sun and are associated with strong magnetic fields.
6. MAGNETIC: Having the properties of a magnet. Of or relating to magnets.
7. IMPACT: The striking of one body against another; a collision.
8. DEBRIS: The scattered remains of something broken or destroyed; rubble or wreckage.
9. TEMPERATURE: The degree of hotness or coldness in a body or enviornment.
10. METEORITES: A stoney or metallic mass of material that has fallen from outer space and down to Earth.
11. GREENHOUSE GASES: Any of the amosphereic gases that contribute to the greenhoues effect.
12. ICE AGE: A cold period marked by intense glaciation
13. GLACIERS: A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass formed by compacted snow.
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