1. Climate Change & Writing Jeopardy

2. Earth and Atmosphere Parts of Speech Citing your Sources EnergyPunctuation Points Greenhouse Gases 100 500 400 300 200 100 500 400 300 200 100 500 400 300 200 100 500 400 300 200 100 500 400 300 200 100 500 400 300 200

3. This is the lowermost layer of the atmosphere.

4. This is the most common gas in the atmosphere

5. Tiny solid or liquid particles found in the atmosphere.

6. The reflectivity of the earth.

7. The layer of the atmosphere in which the ozone layer is located.

8. They stand in for people, places, things and ideas.

9. They modify a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying or quantifying a word.

10. They can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase or a clause.

11. They link words, phrases and clauses.

12. They link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence

13. Greenhouse gases trap this in the atmosphere.

14. Greenhouse gases are mainly generated by this process.

15. These are two of the three main human activities that contribute to the greenhouse effect.

16. After forests and other plants, this is the biggest absorber of CO 2 on the planet.

17. Out of six greenhouse gases, these three are the primary concern of the Kyoto Protocol.

18. The part of a paper where references are listed.

19. We use this version of in-text citation to identify sources using MLA format.

20. Your own rendition of essential information and ideas expressed by someone else.

21. Book and journal titles are underline in the reference section.

22. Typically uses footnotes to provide detailed information about sources.

23. This is the biggest use of oil.

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

25. This is the fastest growing energy source in the world.

26. Ethanol and Biodiesel

27. In addition to CO 2, these are two of the main emissions from coal-fired power plants.

28. Separates the structural elements of a sentence into manageable parts

29. These join only those independent clauses that are closely related in meaning.

30. Typically used to introduce a list, a summation, or an idea that somehow completes the introductory idea.

31. Used to combine words and to separate numbers that are not inclusive.

32. Used to include material that you want to de-emphasize but want to include nonetheless.

33. PoliticsLogical Fallacies Sentence Craft Time ScalesArgumentClimate Impacts 200 1000 800 600 400 200 1000 800 600 400 200 1000 800 600 400 200 1000 800 600 400 200 1000 800 600 400 200 1000 800 600 400

34. This successful policy was put in to effect in 1990 to regulate smog and air pollution

35. Organization created to evaluate the risk of climate change brought on by humans.

36. A new version of this document was released on February 2 nd, 2007.

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

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

39. Making assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a small sample.

40. Arguer claims that a sort of chain reaction, with dire consequences, will take place.

41. Arguer goes of on a tangent, raising a side issue to distract the audience.

42. Assuming that because B comes after A, A caused B.

43. Arguer sets up a wimpy version of the opponent’s position and proceeds to knock it down.

44. Climate change is thought to increase the frequency and dangerousness of these.

45. These natural water storages are rapidly disappearing.

46. These are the two causes for sea level rise.

47. These are three of the main effects of climate change on forests.

48. This virus is moving northward as the continents warm.

49. Sentence containing two separate independent clauses, or complete sentences, with no conjunction or punctuation.

50. An incomplete sentence missing the subject, verb and or a coherent thought.

51. Clause that includes a subject and a verb.

52. The subordinate idea of the sentence.

53. Occurs when you make the object of an action into the subject of a sentence.

54. Weather averaged over a long period of time, usually 30 years.

55. Periods of long-term reduction in the temperature of the each.

56. Two centuries ago, this human activity began to upset the natural balance of CO 2 in the atmosphere.

57. State of the atmosphere at a particular time and place.

58. These events can drastically alter the earth’s climate, records of them are found in ice cores.

59. The appeal to emotion.

60. A broad term, which includes many tactics designed to move people to a position, a belief, or course of action.

61. The appeal to reason.

62. The appeal of one’s character and credibility.

63. He gave mankind the gift of logic.

64. Final Jeopardy

65. Location where this dataset was collected.