- Explain the relationship between climate and weather using examples from the video.
- Explain why floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes are aspects of weather, not climate.
- The video points out how dramatic climate changes have been in the past. Do we know the possible triggers of these rapid shifts? Is it possible that we may experience one of these dramatic shifts in our lifetime?
- The graph of average temperatures shows that today's temperatures are higher than they were 10,000 to 40,000 years ago. It also shows that today's temperatures have been dropping in the past centuries. However, what doesn't show on this graph is that temperatures have been increasing over the past several decades. What do most scientists believe is contributing to this increase in temperature?
- Can you think of other possible ways scientists can determine what climate was like in the past besides studying ice cores?
