| Hamble Ref | HT ONLY | Sep ONLY | Student Checklist Question | 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C2.4.01 | What is the composition of the earths atmosphere? | |||||
| C2.4.01 | How has the Earths atmosphere evolved? | |||||
| C2.4.01 | How has the Earths atmosphere evolved? | |||||
| C2.4.01 | What types of gases did volcanoes produce? | |||||
| C2.4.01 | What happened to the atmopshere when the oceans formed? | |||||
| C2.4.01 | What process has caused oxygen levels in our atmosphere to increase since its formation? | |||||
| C2.4.01 | When did Algae first produce oxygen? | |||||
| C2.4.01 | How did Algae and plants affect the atmosphere? | |||||
| C2.4.01 | Apart from through the process of photosynthesis, what else has caused carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere to decrease since its formation? | |||||
| C2.4.01 | How did the Earth's atmosphere change over time? Why did these changes happen? | |||||
| C2.4.01 | How and why did limestone, coal, crude oil and natural gas form? | |||||
| C2.4.02 | How does the atmosphere help the Earth maintain stable surface temperatures? | |||||
| C2.4.02 | What are the long and short term impacts of the greenhouse effect? | |||||
| C2.4.02 | What types of human activities increase the amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere? | |||||
| C2.4.02 | What do most scientists believe will happen to the Earth?s atmosphere? | |||||
| C2.4.02 | What difficulties can such complex systems as global climate change cause? | |||||
| C2.4.02 | ★ Students should be able to evaluate the quality of evidence in a report about global climate change given appropriate information ★ | |||||
| C2.4.02 | ★ Students should be able to describe uncertainties in the evidence base ★ | |||||
| C2.4.02 | What is the importance of peer reviewing results and of communicating results to a wide range of audiences. | |||||
| C2.4.03 | What is a major cause of climate change? | |||||
| C2.4.03 | Describe briefly four potential effects of global climate change | |||||
| C2.4.03 | What are the scale, risk and environmental implications of global climate change. | |||||
| C2.4.03 | What is a carbon footprint? | |||||
| C2.4.03 | How can a carbon footprint be reduced? | |||||
| C2.4.03 | What actions are required to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and methane? | |||||
| C2.4.03 | ★ Students should be able to give reasons why actions may be limited. ★ | |||||
| C2.4.04 | What human activity is the biggest contributor to an increase in atmospheric pollutants? | |||||
| C2.4.04 | What do most fuels contain? | |||||
| C2.4.04 | Name the gases commonly released into the atmosphere when a fuel is burned? | |||||
| C2.4.04 | How does burning fuels produce carbon monoxide, soot (carbon particles), sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen? | |||||
| C2.4.04 | What are the impacts of emissions of carbon monoxide? | |||||
| C2.4.04 | What environmental impact does the emission of sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen cause? | |||||
| C2.4.04 | What environmental impact do particulates cause? | |||||
| C2.4.04 | Describe and explain the problems caused by increased amounts of the following pollutants in the atmosphere: a) Carbon Dioxide b) Nitrogen Oxides c) Sulfur Dioxide d) Particulates |