Climate Change

What is climate change?

• Don't know
• Change in global climate, such as an increase in the global temperature and major variations in precipitation patterns. 
• The earth has become sick. 
• A change in the earth's climate due to human causes. 

Industrialization is a contributing factor to climate change.

• True
• False

The two largest fuel sources are?

• wood and coal
• wood and natural gas
• oil and nuclear power
• coal and oil

Climate change causes extreme weather conditions such as:

• excessive heat
• drought
• extreme storms
• all of these

Some of the Earth's most fragile ecosystems that could be greatly impacted by climate change live in the

• tropical rainforest
• tundra
• oceans
• African Sahara desert

Global warming refers specifically to an increase in 

• the number of storms on Earth.
• precipitation from Earth’s atmosphere.
• temperatures everywhere on Earth.
• Earth’s average surface temperature.

What is the biggest danger posed by global warming to people living in coastal areas?

• increased precipitation
• increased acidity of sea water
• lack of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
• rising sea level

How can the planting of new trees help reduce climate change?

• Trees help create breezes.
• Trees release moisture that cools the atmosphere.
• Trees take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis.
• Trees block the release of greenhouse gases from soil.

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Gases such as water vapor and carbon dioxide that trap heat near Earth are known as 

• global gases.
• greenhouse gases.
• proxy gases.
• offset gases.

Which human activity contributes the most carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?

• fishing
• breathing
• burning fossil fuels
• farming

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