Climate spiral

High school (ages 12+)
Environment & Earth

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/climate-spiral

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the visualization type?Animated data visualization graphic
2. What is the primary data series?Global average temperature anomaly (change) from 1850 to present
3. How does the climate spiral show that the planet is warming?Each new year is drawn farther from the center, making the spiral grow outward. The more it stretches, the more the temperature has gone up.
4. Who made the climate spiral and when?British scientist Ed Hawkins created the first climate spiral on May 9, 2016. He used it to help people see global warming.

Climate Spiral: An animated data visualization that illustrates the progression of global warming by plotting temperature anomalies over time.
Global Warming: The observed long-term increase in the Earth's average temperature, primarily attributed to human activities.
Temperature Anomaly: The deviation of a measured temperature from a long-term average temperature for a specific location and period.
Greenhouse Effect: The process by which radiation from the Sun is absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere and surface, warming the planet.