Z1-B.T.


 * Step 1**

1. Earth is livable because of the greenhouse effect. 2. To warm up, the Earth must trap the radiation from the Sun. 3. "Greenhouse gases" prevents heat from going into space. 4. Human activies, mainly burning fossil fuels, makes the Earth hotter by releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which are carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, and other gases. 5. CO2 adds the most heat to the atmosphere. Awesome notes, LS.
 * Question**: Is there anything that can take the greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere?
 * Step 2**


 * 3 Reasons Global Warming Reflection**

I learned a lot of things in this step. Some of these things include: Most global warming comes from the burning of fossil fuels. The kind of gas that contributes the most global warming is carbon dioxide, or CO2. Another contributing gas is methane from landfills and agriculture. Nitrous oxide also contributes to this from fertillizers. Deforestation is putting carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. What I did about this was I looked on one of the step 3 websites and it told me about what things caused global warming and how they caused it. I think things are going very well in what I am doing. I am learning a lot, and it will help me so I don't contribute to global warming.


 * Is Global Warming Real Reflection**

Global Warming is real and I have seen how. Scientists have found that the average temperatures on Earth have risen according to records. Scientists have found things out about how the temperatures were colder thousands and millions of years ago. They have found this information from trees on land and they have found this from pollen, particles, and animals that have fallen to the bottom of the ocean. This shows them how the atmosphere was like when they fell to the bottom of the water. Scientists have also found things inside ice sheets showing how Earth used to be. Things are even happening right now. Sea levels have risen faster than they used to. Animals have moved north to cooler places. Everywhere environments are being affected. Why are things happening so quickly? That's why we need to stop global warming now. Even our climate zone is being affected. Our climate change are causing increased yields. So let's stop global warming now! I think our discussion went very well. It gave me new ideas. The one I thought was the best thing I learned is greenhouse gases can be taken out of the atmosphere by plants. Another one was that we can use use our recycable energy, such as wind power, to give power to us. We can use our non-recycable energy when we run out of recycable energy, then go back to the recycable energy.


 * Question**: What plant can take the most greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere? How can we spread that plant around the Earth?

I know how we can stop global warming. I think the best idea is to increase forestland all around the world. We need to do this because plants can take the greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. If we take them out without putting very much in, all our problems would be solved! To not put them back in, we'll have to do other things, too. we'll need to start using more renewable resources. We can use solar, hydro, and wind energy. This will give us energy without putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. We need to do this as long as we can.
 * Step 5**

1. Global warming is where the Earth is warmed up by activities of living things. 2. Global warming makes the Earth hotter and causes many problems such as the extinction of animals. 3. Humans are burning fossil fuels and releasing greenhouse gases in to the atmosphere while it makes Earth hotter. 4. There has been an argument over global warming over if it is human activities or if it is natural. They think it could be natural because Earth has been very hot before, and then it turned into the ice age. Scientists think it could be human activity because when we burn fossil fuels carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. 5. People can slow the rate of global warming by using less energy. 6. Plants rely on animals to give them carbon dioxide and animals rely on plants for oxygen. 7. Climate change means a change of climate. 8. Natural climate change is different to human-caused climate change because human-caused climate change makes things happen that don't normally happen. 9. Global warming will make sea levels rise, storms more often, and droughts more often. 10. Global warming is affecting our lives from high temperatures and sea levels, as well as more storms and droughts. 11. Individuals can reduce global warming by using less energy.
 * Notes**