Biosphere and Climate Change

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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NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

Industrialization is a contributing factor to climate change because of the dependency of industrialization on fossil fuels.

• True

• False

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Examples of fossil fuels are (select all that apply) __________.

• coal

• natural gas

• oil

• nuclear power

Climate change causes extreme weather conditions such as:

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

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

Compared to other greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide is very effective in trapping heat near the surface of the Earth.

• true
• false

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

Which of the following have been linked to climate change?  

• droughts
• flooding
• melting of polar ice caps
• all of the above

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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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Which of the following is the best conclusion that can be made from this graph?

• atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have been decreasing since 1960
• Hawaii has a lot of carbon dioxide
• humans have been working hard to decrease carbon dioxide levels
• atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased steadily since 1960

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

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

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

• warmer
• cooler

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