Current Events Semester 2 Final Exam Review
1) Texts ( An Inconvenient Truth 1,2, solutions )
Study for meaning. Review vocabulary.
2) Essay topic: Your research report. Summarize from memory.@(140 words)
3) Keywords from texts.
*Vice
President
climate change
global warming
public opinion
scientific fact
controversy
natural phenomena
long-term variation
*The Kyoto
Protocol
profit
*policy
*technology
to prevent something
to pressure somebody
to be a pity
the media
to be uncertain
to reflect
*carbon
dioxide
to absorb
*the
Northern Hemisphere
drastic
*double
triple
to be linked
to be a coincidence
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
*glaciers
the Polar Caps
to flood
*within 10
years (Kilimanjaro snow disappears)
*within 50
to 70 years (North Pole disappears in summer)
10 to 20 feet (water levels may raise)
90% (reflected by ice, absorbed by sea)
40% (polar ice has thinned)
*extreme
weather events
a warmer ocean (cause)
biodiesel
wind power
*solar
power
hybrid automobiles
fuel cells
carbon taxes
CSS (carbon capture and storage)
* = will be on the test.
4) Gmail and Facebook
Keywords from the worksheet.