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World Scholar's Cup (WSC) Science Curriculum 2024 FULL Guide
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World Scholar's Cup (WSC) Science Curriculum 2024 FULL Guide How Sea Levels Rise Correct Ans - Melting ice in the arctic and antarctic. As well as the fact that if you heat up the ocean, water naturally starts to expand, increasing in volume.Extreme Weather Phenomena Correct Ans - A warmer climate creates an atmosphere that can collect, retain, and drop more water. This is because warmer air can hold more water vapor than colder hair, which means more rain. The summer getting hotter means that more wildfires will occur. This affects weather patterns in such a way that wet areas become wetter and dry areas drier.
Mass Extinction Correct Ans - A widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth
Geoengineering Correct Ans - The deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth's natural system
Carbon Sequestration Correct Ans - The process of capturing and storing CO2 from our atmosphere
Land use management Correct Ans - The process of managing the land
to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, by planting more trees (afforestration).
Biochar Correct Ans - A charcoal like substance which is made by burning organic material (biomass), with the potential of storing carbon for thousands of years.
Biomass Correct Ans - Energy that comes from plants and animals
Enhanced weathering Correct Ans - When basalt is split in half, releasing charged particles which create bonds with the CO2, and the product can be stored away.
Carbon dioxide capture Correct Ans - Captures CO2 produced from fossil fuel plants. Fossil fuels are heated up, multiple other gasses and products are released through the exit tubes. To capture the CO2, a chemical is
sprayed that bonds only with the CO2 and falls back down. This product is then heated up to the point where only pure CO2 gas is released, and it is then compressed into a solid and sent to be buried underground.
Ocean fertilization Correct Ans - Scientists go to the ocean and dump iron fillings and multiple other nutrients as a way to encourage phytoplankton
growth. And since oceans naturally absorb CO2, phytoplankton use CO2 to grow. Once they die, the CO2 they used for life gets buried at the bottom at the
ocean under the sedimentary rock.
Ocean upwelling Correct Ans - parallel winds push top warmer water away from the coast line to allow for colder water from the bottom to reach the top of the ocean. This cold water is filled with nutrients because of all the degraded fish at the bottom of the ocean, and as a result the ocean becomes more productive. Specifically the production of phytoplankton, which helps remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Solar geoengineering Correct Ans - Technologies that could in theory, reduce temperatures by reflecting sunlight away from the earth, because with less sun reaching the surface, we have decreased the average temperatures.
Aerosol injection Correct Ans - When you spray Sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere and then it combines with water to form sulfuric acid aerosols, and as a result these aerosols reflect sunlight.
Marine Cloud Brightening Correct Ans - This involves getting on ships, flying above the clouds, and spraying salt water onto the clouds. These salt particles, help condense water vapor into liquid. With more water, clouds would appear larger and brighter - thus reflecting sunlight.
High-Albedo Crops and Buildings Correct Ans - Paint everything as white as possible, so it reflect as much sunlight as possible. White cities, as well as adding a gene which makes crops waxy, reflecting light.
Ocean Mirror Correct Ans - Massive fleet of sea vessels to create millions of micro bubbles on the surface of the ocean to reflect away sunlight.
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