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A Perfect Planet – Humans

1. Over the next 8 decades how many species are we at risk of losing?
Half of the animals on earth
2. What impact has human induced climate change had on the population of elephants?
Hundreds died and the rest became orphans
3. How many mass extinction events has earth been through in its history?
5
4. What were they caused by?
Cataclysmic eruptions
5. What previous geological era did humans dig up?
Carboniferous era
6. For every 1 degree that the temperature increases, the atmosphere sucks up how much more
water?
7% more water
7. What does this lead to?
More concentrated rainfall and more extreme weather
8. For every 1 degree rise in global temperatures, how many people will be pushed into near
unliveable extremes?
1 billion people
9. What might this trigger?
The biggest migration of humans ever
10. How far will the band of trees stretch along the Great Green Wall?
5,000 miles long
11. How do these trees help?
They will stop topsoil from flying away and they are drought resistant and lots of water in their roots
12. How many trees have already been planted in Senegal?
12 million trees
13. How much carbon dioxide do these natural environments take up?
1/3
14. Which is one of the most important carbon stores?
Tropical jungles - Amazon
15. How much CO2 does the Amazon store?
25 years worth of CO2 from all the cars in the world
16. What is threatening the Amazon?
Deforestation
17. How much of the Amazon is lost every minute due to human activity?
Two football pitches
18. What is the aim of the project taking place in the Amazon?
To plant a forest
19. Who has the project turned to?
Indigenous people
20. After 6 years, how much area of forest will they have restored?
The size of 30,000 football fields
21. How much of the oxygen that we breathe do oceans produce?
Up to 70%
22. What is the name of the microscopic algae that absorbs carbon dioxide in our oceans?
Phytoplankton
23. What happens to water as it absorbs more carbon dioxide?
The oceans became more acidic
24. How much has phytoplankton fallen by in recent times?
40%
25. How are oceans being protected?
Networks of marine protection - hotspots for breeding in whales
26. What do ocean currents transport?
Nutrients
27. Where do these currents begin?
North/ South poles
28. What is the name for these ocean currents?

29. Roughly what percent of the energy we use comes from burning fossil fuels?
80%
30. What percent of our energy could wind supply by 2050?
30%
31. What can the solar energy farm in Draa-Tafilalet do that other solar farms cannot?
It can power the steam turbines at night using the sun from the day. Molten salt
32. What happened in 2015?
195 worlds nations pledged to lower their emissions reduce carbon dioxide
33. What was the goal?
Limit the warming of the earth below 2 degrees
34. How quickly are species becoming extinct?
100 times faster than the normal rate
35. What are zoos doing around the world?
They are collecting DNA from rare animals before they go extinct

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