global warming & climate change

Recycling, Global warming & climate change

YR9 Quiz 

Multiple Choice

Which of the following materials can be recycled?

• glass

• paper

• metals

• plastic

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

What is a benefit of recycling?

• There is less trash filling up landfills

• Fewer resources are taken from the Earth

• Less pollution

• None of the Above

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

No place on Earth is colder today than it was 100 years ago

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following gases does not trap heat?

• carbon dioxide

• nitrogen

• water vapour

• methane

Multiple Choice

As average global temperature rises,

• Average precipitation increases

• Average precipitation decreases

• Average precipitation is unchanged

Multiple Choice

Where have some of the strongest and earliest impacts of global warming occurred?

• In the tropics

• In northern latitudes

• Impacts of global warming are distributed equally all over the planet.

Multiple Choice

Compared to other greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide is the most effective at trapping heat near the Earth's surface.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Some kinds of pollution in the atmosphere can act to cool the planet by reducing the amount of solar radiation that reaches Earth's surface.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Earth has been warmer in the past than it is today.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

If you removed the atmosphere's natural greenhouse effect, and everything else stayed the same, Earth's temperature would be:

• 10 to 20°F (6 to 11°C) warmer

• 30 to 40°F (17 to 22°C) warmer

• 30 to 40°F (17 to 22°C) lower

• 30 to 50°F (17 to 22°C) warmer

Multiple Choice

How do scientists collect evidence about climate?

• Using remote sensing from space with satellites

• By ground-based measurements of surface temperature, carbon dioxide concentration and sea level

• By collecting "proxy data" from tree rings, ice cores and historical records

• All of the above