Climate

Climate Change

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Multiple Choice

True or False: Climate on Earth never changes

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Climatologists get clues about the climate of the past by studying what? There is more than one answer.

• Rocks

• Fossils

• TikTok

• Glaciers

Multiple Choice

Hundreds of millions of years ago, nearly the whole planet was covered with what?

• lush vegetation

• ice

• water

• desert

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The impact on the planet due to global warming is called...

• climate change
• the seasons
• the weather
• natural change

Multiple Choice

In Yuma, Arizona most of the days are ___

• cold and wet
• cold and dry
• hot and wet
• hot and dry

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The average temperature of the surface of Earth has increased approximately 1°C in the past century. Which reason best explains this increase in temperature?

• lower levels of ozone in the atmosphere
• lower levels of nitrogen in the atmosphere
• higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
• higher levels of oxygen in the atmosphere

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Visible light reaches Earth’s surface while infrared light is trapped as heat. Which characteristic of Earth’s atmosphere causes this to happen?

• the hole in the ozone
• the greenhouse effect
• atmospheric pressure
• the inversion layer

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What are greenhouse gases?

• gases that cause climate change
• gases that emit green smoke
• gases that are used to make green colored glass

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Climate change causes extreme weather conditions such as:

• Flooding
• Heat Waves
• Hurricanes
• All of the above

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Which of the following is NOT evidence of global warming?

• Sea level rising
• Loss of Arctic Sea Ice
• Less Water Vapor in the Air
• More extreme weather events

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Increasing quantities of CO₂ (Carbon Dioxide) in the atmosphere will cause air temperatures to be _____. 

• warmer
• cooler

Multiple Choice

Floating sea ice melts...

• and causes sea levels to rise because it adds water to the ocean.

• but does not cause sea levels to rise because the ice displaces the same amount of ocean water as the melted ice would displace.

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What is the direct cause of rising sea levels?

• Melting Sea Ice

• Melting Land Ice

• Climate Change

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 What is the greenhouse effect?

• The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation.
• The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.
• The heating of a solid, such as a rock.