Climate Change & Writing Jeopardy. Earth and Atmosphere Parts of Speech Citing your Sources EnergyPunctuation Points Greenhouse Gases 100 500 400 300.

Climate Change & Writing Jeopardy

Earth and Atmosphere

Parts of Speech

Citing your Sources

Energy Punctuation Points

Greenhouse Gases

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This is the lowermost layer of the

atmosphere.

This is the most common gas in the

atmosphere

Tiny solid or liquid particles found in the

atmosphere.

The reflectivity of the earth.

The layer of the atmosphere in which

the ozone layer is located.

They stand in for people, places, things

and ideas.

They modify a noun or a pronoun by

describing, identifying or quantifying a word.

They can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a

phrase or a clause.

They link words, phrases and clauses.

They link nouns, pronouns and phrases

to other words in a sentence

Greenhouse gases trap this in the atmosphere.

Greenhouse gases are mainly generated

by this process.

These are two of the three main human

activities that contribute to the

greenhouse effect.

After forests and other plants, this is the

biggest absorber of CO2 on the planet.

Out of six greenhouse gases, these three are the primary concern of

the Kyoto Protocol.

The part of a paper where references are

listed.

We use this version of in-text citation to

identify sources using MLA format.

Your own rendition of essential information and ideas expressed

by someone else.

Book and journal titles are underline in the reference section.

Typically uses footnotes to provide detailed information

about sources.

This is the biggest use of oil.

These are three reasons why nuclear power is not a viable solution for energy

supply.

This is the fastest growing energy

source in the world.

Ethanol and Biodiesel

In addition to CO2, these are two of the main emissions from

coal-fired power plants.

Separates the structural elements of

a sentence into manageable parts

These join only those independent clauses

that are closely related in meaning.

Typically used to introduce a list, a

summation, or an idea that somehow completes the

introductory idea.

Used to combine words and to separate numbers that are not

inclusive.

Used to include material that you want to de-emphasize but

want to include nonetheless.

Politics Logical Fallacies

Sentence Craft

Time Scales ArgumentClimate Impacts

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This successful policy was put in to effect in

1990 to regulate smog and air pollution

Organization created to evaluate the risk of

climate change brought on by

humans.

A new version of this document was

released on February 2nd, 2007.

International treaty to restrict greenhouse gas emissions not ratified by the US.

Successful international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out CFCs.

Making assumptions about a whole group

or range of cases based on a small

sample.

Arguer claims that a sort of chain reaction,

with dire consequences, will

take place.

Arguer goes of on a tangent, raising a side

issue to distract the audience.

Assuming that because B comes

after A, A caused B.

Arguer sets up a wimpy version of the opponent’s position

and proceeds to knock it down.

Climate change is thought to increase the frequency and dangerousness of

these.

These natural water storages are rapidly

disappearing.

These are the two causes for sea level

rise.

These are three of the main effects of climate

change on forests.

This virus is moving northward as the continents warm.

Sentence containing two separate

independent clauses, or complete

sentences, with no conjunction or punctuation.

An incomplete sentence missing the subject, verb and or a

coherent thought.

Clause that includes a subject and a verb.

The subordinate idea of the sentence.

Occurs when you make the object of an action into the subject

of a sentence.

Weather averaged over a long period of

time, usually 30 years.

Periods of long-term reduction in the

temperature of the each.

Two centuries ago, this human activity began to upset the natural balance of

CO2 in the atmosphere.

State of the atmosphere at a

particular time and place.

These events can drastically alter the

earth’s climate, records of them are found in ice cores.

The appeal to emotion.

A broad term, which includes many tactics

designed to move people to a position, a

belief, or course of action.

The appeal to reason.

The appeal of one’s character and

credibility.

He gave mankind the gift of logic.

Final Jeopardy

Location where this dataset was collected.