Climate Change

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What is climate change?

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Long term changes in temperature and weather patterns

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What does correlation mean?

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The relationship or connection between 2 or more things

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Fossil Fuels

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Things like coal and oil that were formed by living things

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What is the Greenhouse Effect?

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The trapping of the sun's warmth in the atmosphere

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Which of the following is NOT a greenhouse gas? Water (H2O), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Oxygen (O), Methane (CH4)

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Oxygen (O)

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How does increased global temperatures create more extreme weather?

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Higher temperatures means more water in the atmosphere

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How do we know that climate change is being caused by human activity?

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Global temperature started rising when CO2 levels started rising

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The burning of fossil fuels releases what greenhouse gas?

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Carbon Dioxide

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Where does most of the human population live?

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Near the ocean

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What is the best interpretation of the graph regarding carbon dioxide levels? Options: Humans have been working hard to decrease carbon dioxide, Carbon dioxide has been decreasing since the 1960's, There is more carbon dioxide in Hawaii than any other state, Carbon dioxide has steadily increased since the 1960's

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Carbon dioxide has steadily increased since the 1960's