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Before the Flood Leo Dicaprio's Documentary on Global Climate Change Name: Period: Part I- All responses must be in a different color font. 1. What is the name of the painting Leo viewed as a child and what does it show? 2. What award did he win from the United Nations? 3. What rules transportation? Electricity? 4. Who did Leo sit down with in his early 20’s and what did he teach him? 5. What will happen to the Arctic by 2040? What will be the impacts of this? 6. What does the cable that they extend show about how the ice in the Arctic has changed in the past five years? 7. What is “sunny day flooding” in Florida? How are they combating this issue? 8. How much time will these changes allow them to stay above the water? 9. What do the Governor and Senator of Florida state about climate change? Why? 10. ______% of the scientific community states that not only climate change is real but is also in fact caused by human actions. 11. What happened to the first scientist who released his climatic data to the world? 12. What do the Koch brothers (owners for the largest and wealthiest fossil fuel industry in the world) to public to distort their view on climate change?

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Page 1: DIXON'S BIO CLASSES - Before the Flood€¦ · Web viewBefore the Flood Leo Dicaprio's Documentary on Global Climate ChangeName: Period: Part I- All responses must be in a different

Before the FloodLeo Dicaprio's Documentary on Global Climate Change

Name: Period:

Part I- All responses must be in a different color font.1. What is the name of the painting Leo viewed as a child and what does it show?2. What award did he win from the United Nations?3. What rules transportation? Electricity?4. Who did Leo sit down with in his early 20’s and what did he teach him?5. What will happen to the Arctic by 2040? What will be the impacts of this?6. What does the cable that they extend show about how the ice in the Arctic has changed in the past five

years?7. What is “sunny day flooding” in Florida? How are they combating this issue?8. How much time will these changes allow them to stay above the water?9. What do the Governor and Senator of Florida state about climate change? Why?10. ______% of the scientific community states that not only climate change is real but is also in fact

caused by human actions.11. What happened to the first scientist who released his climatic data to the world?12. What do the Koch brothers (owners for the largest and wealthiest fossil fuel industry in the world) to

public to distort their view on climate change?13. Approximately how much money do our congressmen and senators, such as James Inhofe, get from

the Koch brother’s lobbyists? (write a range)14. How long have we known about climate change?15. Who recently passed the US as the world's largest polluter?16. How many factories are there in China? What does the red show about the majority of these factories?17. How the media help change the Government’s view on pollution?18. Who is the third largest polluter in the world?19. How many people in India do not have any electricity? (equals the entire population of the United

States)

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20. Based on daily energy usage, one person’s daily usage in the United States equals ____________ people in India.

21. Indian crops were destroyed because they received _________________ years of rain in ________________________ hours.

22. What is happening in Kiribati?23. What is the President of Kiribati long term plan for his people?24. What has happened to the country of Palau in the past 12 years?25. In the past 30 years, we have lost _________% of the world’s coral reefs.26. Oceans act like a buffer and take in _____________ of the world’s CO2.27. What is happened to the Indonesian rainforests? For what?28. List some of the big companies that use this cheap palm oil?29. The Leuser Ecosystem is the ______________ place on earth where elephants, rhinos, orangutans

and tigers live together.30. Indonesia has lost ________% of their forests due to palm oil.31. Who are the refugees from the forests being burned for palm oil fields?32. What do people need to think about when entering the supermarket?33. How can you simply change the world through your diet?34. In the US alone, _________% is used for food production. Of that, ______% is used to grow food for

cattle.35. While cattle eat, they are constantly releasing __________________ gas.36. One molecule of methane equals ______________ carbon dioxide molecules.37. Half a hamburger equals ____________ hours of driving in a car.38. If you simply switch to chicken from beef, can reduce _________% of what you emit.39. Why did the shooting set for the Revenant have to be changed?40. What industry has the most influence and money in the world?41. How many Giga Factories would be needed to transition the WORLD to renewable energy?42. _________________________ must set the rules to favor sustainable energy for real change to occur.43. How does a carbon tax work?44. A tax shift would increase the carbon tax and therefore would allow us to decrease the

_______________ tax.45. According to Secretary of State Kerry, how was the Climate Summit of 2015 different from previous

summits?46. How will the simple color change of Greenland (after the ice melts) going to affect climate?47. What is the percentage of Germany and Denmark’s energy that is renewable?48. WHY did Sweden change to become the first fossil fuel free nation?49. How many countries came together to sign this climate agreement to commit to do whatever they can

to combat climate change?50. What was good and bad about this agreement?51. According to president Obama, what has the Pentagon stated about Climate Change? WHY?52. How will the changing of the Gulf Stream impact the climate of Europe?53. According to the climatic scientist at NASA, how did the drought in the Middle East impact those

countries?54. This model shows that these major impacts will occur in _________________ decades.55. How does The Pope view Climate Change?56. The Pope said more than anything, “Pray for ___________________________________”57. What panel are we currently living within which panel of Bosch’s painting “The Garden of Earthly

Delights”?58. Based on this panel, what does our future look like?59. How can YOU easily combat climate change?

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60. You may very well be the last generation of civilized society, therefore, your children will: