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GCSE Combined Science · key term
Caused by human activities.
Used by AQA and OCR
Specification 4.4.1.4 · Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: Human Impacts on ClimateAn anthropogenic change is one caused by human activities. Burning coal, oil and gas for electricity generation, transport and industry releases carbon dioxide. These fossil fuels contain carbon that was stored underground; combustion transfers that carbon into the atmosphere as CO₂.
Specification C6.2d · Chemistry Paper 2
Originating from human activity, rather than solely from natural processes.
Revise: Anthropogenic Climate ChangeAnthropogenic means caused by human activity.
Chemistry, Combined Science
Revise: Greenhouse Effect and Evidence for Climate ChangeAnthropogenic climate change means climate change caused by human activities. The issue is not whether climate can change naturally—it can—but whether natural influences alone explain recent warming.
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