Answer the questions: 1.What is climate? Climate is the weather a certain place has over a certain period of time. 2. Is the climate always the same in this or that part of the world? Does it change? No, climate is different in different parts of the world. It changes a little from year to year. 3. What can you say about the climate of Russia?

In Russia in the west the climate is mild and wet, the coldest place is in the north of Siberia. In the south there is a lot of sunshine and the heat in summer can be really terrible. 4. What do you know about the greenhouse effect? The greenhouse effect works like this: sunlight gives us heat. Some of the heat warms the atmosphere, and some of the heat goes back into space.

5. Why doesnt all the heat go back into space? Why does the atmosphere become warmer? During the last 100 years people have produced a lot of carbon dioxide. This gas in the atmosphere works like glass in a greenhouse. It lets heat get in, but it doesnt let much heat get out. So the atmosphere becomes warmer.

6. How can the greenhouse effect influence the climate on the planet in future? The atmosphere becomes warmer. This can be dangerous for our fragile planet. 7. Do you think our planet needs protection? Why? Yes, I think our fragile planet needs protection, because the greenhouse effect is dangerous for humans, plants and animals.