3.6 Climate Change

Multiple Choice

How does carbon dioxide concentration affect temperature?

• the higher the carbon dioxide, the lower the temperature

• the higher the carbon dioxide, the higher the temperature

• carbon dioxide does not affect temperature

Multiple Choice

How does the combustion of fossil fuels affect the carbon cycle?

• adds more CO2

• removes CO2

• does not affect CO2

Open Ended

What can humans do to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere?

Multiple Choice

True or false, the loss of one species in an ecosystem affects the rest of the community.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

What does not produce carbon dioxide?

• Photosynthesis
• Burning Fossil Fuels
• Animal respiration
• Plants decaying

Multiple Choice

Which of the following removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• Combustion
• Respiration
• Photosynthesis
• Death

Multiple Choice

How do scientists collect evidence about climate?

• using remote sensing from space with satellites

• by ground-based measurements of surface temperatures, carbon dioxide concentration and sea level

• by collecting “proxy data” from tree rings, ice cores, and historical records

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

Isotopes of what element helps scientists look at temperature change in ice cores?

• Carbon

• Nitrogen

• Oxygen

• Sulfur

Multiple Choice

What evidence do we have that the climate is changing?

• Increased global temperatures

• Glaciers and arctic ice are melting

• Sea level is rising

• All of these are evidence the climate is changing

Multiple Choice

Changes in temperature are expected to be greatest

• near the equator
• near the poles
• between the equator and the North Pole
• between the equator and the South Pole

Multiple Choice

The warming of the atmosphere by the trapping of heat being radiated to space is called

• evaporation
• condensation
• the greenhouse effect
• radiation

Multiple Choice

All of these graphs reveal scientific evidence for climate change. Which graph has the most significant increase of change in a short period of time?

Multiple Choice

In Graph A, Atmosphereic CO2 Concentrations, what is the highest historical CO2 level recorded before 1950

• 180 ppm

• 220 ppm

• 300 pmm

• 380 ppm

Multiple Choice

Ice cores teach scientists all of the following except

• the climate during the last ice age

• the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere

• the climate when dinosaurs existed

• the average amount of snowfall during a given year

Multiple Choice

Where are the oldest ice cores produced?

• Antarctica

• Greenland

• Tall Mountains

• China

• The United States

Multiple Select

What kind of information do ice cores contain?

• Concentration of CO₂ in the Atmosphere in past years

• Concentration of Methane in the Atmosphere in past years

• The temperature of the Earth in past years

• Evidence of volcanic eruptions in past years