Inconvenient truth with answers

Name: _____________________________ Class Period: _____________________ Viewing Guide: An Inconvenient Truth 1. The speaker shows the audience a picture of the Earth taken from space. He said it was the first one that any of us saw. It was taken on Christmas Eve of 1968 during the ________________________ mission. 2. The speaker was _______________________, and he used to be the next president of the United States of America. 3. The man on the radio said “This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get them moving to ________________________.” 4. That picture of the Earth taken from space became known as ________________________. 5. The spacecraft Galileo took a time lapse picture of one day’s worth of rotation. However, it had been compressed into _______________ seconds. 6. Al Gore talked about a geography teacher he had. A student in the class looked at the east coast of South American and the west coast of Africa. He raised his hand and asked, “_______________________________________________________________?” 7. While discussing the global warming myth, Al Gore says that “the most vulnerable part of the Earth’s ecological system is the ________________________________.” 8. The title of the video Al Gore showed to give his definition of global warming was called. “Global Warming or None Like it ___________________.” 9. The announcer on the video said that the politicians’ solution to the global warming was to drop what into the ocean every now and then? _____________________________ 10. The reason the amount of carbon dioxide in the air each year is because of the plants. It is like the Earth each year __________________ in and out. 11. In the Himalayas, there is a particular problem with global warming because ________% of ALL of the people in the world get their drinking water from rivers and spring systems that are fed by the water coming off of the glaciers. 12. When Al Gore was in Antarctica, a guy looked at an ice core and said, “Right here is where the US Congress passed the ___________________________________.” 13. Al Gore showed a chart of the carbon dioxide levels in Antarctica that went back _______________ thousand years. 14. There is one relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature that is far more powerful than all of the others. When there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the temperature gets ____________________. 15. When looking at the projected amount of carbon dioxide in the air in 50 years, the skeptics to the global warming theory say “So, that seems perfectly ________________.” 16. Al Gore says this is not a political issue, but it is a moral issue. He says that if we allow the carbon dioxide to get that high, it is deeply _________________________. 17. If you look at the 10 hottest years every recorded on Earth, they all happened in the last _________ years and the hottest of all was in ________________. 18. When the oceans get warmer, it causes stronger _______________. 19. The same year we saw the big hurricanes like Jeanne, Frances, and Ivan we also saw a record number of __________________ in the United States. 20. For a hurricane, as the water temperature increase, the ____________________ increases and the moisture content increases. 21. Winston Churchill said that “The Era of Procrastination …… is coming to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of _________________________________.” 22. In Mumbai, India, this past July it rained ___________ inches in 24 hours (the largest downpour in India ever) 23. Lake ____________ (in Africa) was once one of the largest lakes in the world and it has dried up to almost nothing. 24. Al Gore said that as a kid, it took him a while to learn the difference between _____________ and _________________. 25. The number of days that the tundra in Alaska is frozen enough to drive was 225 days 35 years ago. Today it is below _______________ days per year. 26. Starting in 1970, there was a drop-off in the thickness of the Artic ice cap. It has diminished by over 40% in ________ years. 27. Scientists have found that many polar bears have ____________________ because they have had to swim so far looking for ice. 28.On a worldwide bases, the annual average temperature is _______________ degrees Fahrenheit. 29. The whole ocean current system is all linked together in a loop called the ocean ______________________. 30. The same phenomena of changing all these patterns is also affecting the ________________. 31. There are over 14 million acres of spruce trees in Alaska that have been destroyed by ____________________________. 32. The coral reefs all of the world , because of global warming and other factors, are ________________________ and losing their color. 33. The green blotches on the map of Antarctica represent ice shelves larger than the state of _________________________________________ that have broken off in the last 15 to 20 years. 34. Focusing on West Antarctica, if it melts the sea level all over the world will rise __________ feet. 35. If _____________________ melts, it will also cause the sea level world-wide to rise by the same number of feet as West Antarctica would. 36. We are witnessing a collision between our civilization and _____________________. 37. After World War II, the population had reached 2 billion. Now, 50 years later, the population has risen to _______________ billion. 38. Almost 30% of the carbon dioxide that goes up into the atmosphere each year comes from _____________________. 39. Old Habits + New Technology = _________________________ altered consequences. 40. What country is the largest contributor of carbon dioxide emissions? ____________________ 41. Starting back in 1964 with the Surgeon General’s report, the evidence was laid out on the connection between smoking cigarettes and ________________________. 42. Isn’t there a disagreement among scientists about whether the problem is real or not? ___________________________________ 43. The objective of the so-called skeptics is to reposition global warming as a ________________ rather than fact. 44. Al Gore told the scientist who was testifying to Congress about global warming that if “they force you to change a scientific conclusion, it is a form of science ____________________ by them. 45. Al Gore said, “I’ve seen scientists who were persecuted, ridiculed, deprived of jobs, income, simply because the facts they discovered led them to an _________________________________ that they insisted on telling. 46. Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his _________________ depends on his not understanding it.” 47. Al Gore has given his slide show at least _______________ times. 48. The only way he knows to share this information is to do it city by city, person by person, and _____________________________. 49. “Humanity _____________________ possesses the fundamental scientific, technical and industrial know-how to solve the carbon and climate problems.” 50. We have everything thing we need to combat the problem except for __________________ will. 51. The solutions are in ________________________. 52. The United States and ___________________ are the only two advanced nations in the world that have not ratified Kyoto. 53. The United States has solved a global environmental crisis before (the whole in the stratospheric _________________ layer). 54. Al Gore said, “I believe this is a moral issue. It is your time to seize this issue. It is our time to rise again to __________________________________________.” 55. Future generations may well have the occasion to ask themselves, “What were ______________________ thinking?” 55. The credit list lots of things that you can do to help eliminate carbon emissions. List 5 of them: __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 1. Apollo 8 2. Al Gore 3. New Orleans 4. earth rise 5. 24 6. Did they ever fit together 7. atmosphere 8. hot 9. ice cube 10. breathes 11. 40 12. clean air act 13. 650 14. warner 15. okay 16. unethical 17. 14, 2005 18. storms 19. tornadoes 20. wind velocity 21. consequences 22. 37 23. Chad 24. fun, work 25. 75 26. 40 27. drowned 28. 58 29. conveyor 30. seasons 31. bark beetles 32. bleaching 33. Rhode Island 34. feet 35. Greenland 36. earth 37. 6.5 38. forest burning 39. dramatically 40. US 41. lung cancer 42. not really 43. theory 44. fraud 45. inconvenient truth 46. salary 47. 1000 48. family by family 49. already 50. political 51. our hands 52. Austrailia 53. ozone 54. secure our future 55. our parents