Year 11 Climate Change Homework

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Congratulations! You have just been elected as the Minister for the Environment. There are a series of pressing matters that need your attention. Your first priority is to reduce number of greenhouse gases produced by your country.

As Minister for the Environment you must come up with a plan to reduce your countries CO2 emissions.

Consider the folowing things:

What are you going to do?

–How will it work?
What other effects might your plan have? (environmental, economic, social)

We will review this after half term.

What's erupting?!

Did you know that across the globe there are currently 35 volcanoes erupting?! With nearly double that number showing signs of 'unrest'.

A regularly updated list and map can be found here:
What's erupting?

What do you notice about the pattern of volcano locations?
Are the most active volcanoes clustered together? Why?

New Theory Emerges for Where Some Fish Became Four-Limbed Creatures

I know, I know, you've spent the Christmas break pondering high-brow questions such as what is the core of the earth really made of, did dinosaurs have feathers, how did fish begin to walk on the land.
Well, you may realx, at least partly, I can now offer some explanation for one of these issues. An eminent Geologist from the University of Oregon has come up with an alternative theory.
For years we have accepted that plucky fish crawled on stumpy fin-like legs from one shrinking desert pond to another in amazing feats of derring-do. But new research has called this into question and offered an alternative theory.

More information here;
Fish become Amphibians