Global Warming Signs and Sources
Interactive Webquest
This Discovery Channel interactive website does an excellent job walking students through all of the effects global warming has on the Earth's climate, ecosystems, sea levels, and ocean water chemistry. This worksheet provides an outline of questions for students to answer as they explore the website.
Essential concepts: Global warming, global climate change, hurricanes, el nino, la nina, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, methane, greenhouse effect, weather, climate, atmosphere, stratosphere, troposphere, IPCC, proxies, average temperature, Hurricane Katrina, great ocean conveyor, glaciers, ice caps, sea ice, water cycle, hydrologic cycle, ocean pH, acidification, coral reef bleaching, coastal flooding.
