Monday/ Tuesday February 11/12 your personal carbon footprint assessment

What is a carbon footprint?

 The total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2).

In other words: When you drive a car, the engine burns fuel which creates a certain amount of CO2, depending on its fuel consumption and the driving distance. (CO2 is the chemical symbol for carbon dioxide). When you heat your house with oil, gas or coal, then you also generate CO2. Even if you heat your house with electricity, the generation of the electrical power may also have emitted a certain amount of CO2. When you buy food and goods, the production of the food and goods also emitted some quantities of CO2.

Effects of our carbon footprints on the planet

Increase in sea level:

 (global sea level has increased by 0.19m between 1910 and 2010)

                                                   

Coming up: "shrinking planet" reading and graphic organizer for Wednesday/ Thursday / 13th / 14th (another copy below)
Please turn in your assessment on "The Second Coming". 

Several folks are missing "Musee des Beaux Arts", which was due last Thursday as the start of class. It is now very late. Take care of that to remove your zero.

   In class: Carbon footprint vocabulary quiz;  personal carbon footprint test and reflection, which will be due at the close of class tomorrow; 

Everyone make sure you have your notebook handy; write a MLA heading; the topic is carbon footprint notes. Then 
please collect a chromebook. Do not open, until I give you instructions. Again, make sure you have your notebooks, and label a clean page with an MLA heading. The topic is carbon footprint notes.

carbon footprint assessment

 

Once you have logged in, you should see the following:

 press on the carbon footprint calculator

Then click on explore. Make sure you have your notebook handy for any notes.
What type of notes should I be taking?
 Types of questions? 
I notice that they ask for numbers in the metric system. What should I do?
  There is a converstion button on the side.
How many questions are there?
Fifty
What do I do when I am done?
Compare yourself to the average person your age in New York and around the world. 
Then:
Create google document with a correct MLA heading, the topic being carbon footprint personal response.

In a well-written response of no fewer than 250 words- and using the notes from your notebook- respond to 
 1)how your environmental habits impact the planet and 2) how they compare to others.
Make sure your two paragraph essay can stand independently, has specific details based upon your notes and is devoid of language convention errors. PROOF READ!  Better yet, have a neighbor proof read before submitting.

 WRITING GRADE!

Carbon Footprint vocabulary        quiz on Monday, February 11

1.   capacity (noun)- the maximum amount that something can contain or produce

2.   theoretical (adjective)- hypothetical, conjectural, based on or calculated through theory rather than experience or practice

3.   optimistic (adjective)- hopeful and confident about the future.

4.   pessimistic (adjective)- tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.

5.   malnourished (adjective)- suffering from malnutrition. Not receiving the proper nutrients to thrive

6.   proliferation (noun)- rapid increase in numbers.

7.   fjord (noun)- a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliff

8.   force majeure (noun)-LAW: unforeseeable circumstances that prevent someone from fulfilling a contract.

2.irresistible compulsion or greater force.

9.   consensus (noun)- a general agreement

10.      zeitgeist (noun)- defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.