Biome review

Which of the following is an example of climate?

• A record-breaking hot day in the summer

• Three hurricanes during one month

• An increase in average temperature over decades

• Hundred-year floods

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Which politician is NOT mistakenly talking about weather when they think they are talking about climate?

• "In case we have forgotten because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I asked the chair, do you know what this is? It's a snowball just from outside here. So it's very, very cold out. Very unseasonable." - Senator Inhofe

• "It used to not be climate change. It used to be global warming. That wasn't working too well, 'cause it was getting too cold all over the place." - President Trump

• "Global warming" isn't so warm these days." (during a cold week in winter)

  — Representative John Fleming

• "As governor I have seen the tremendous changes over the last few years; the amount of land that we have lost, the trees that we have lost, the homes that we have lost, lives that have been lost, and it is due to a large extent to global warming."

  - Arnold Schwarzenegger

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Which of the following is weather?

• a rainstorm

• the yearly average of rainfall

• the jet stream

• ice ages

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What is the greenhouse effect?

• When greenhouses are used to grow crops

• When gases in the atmosphere trap heat from solar energy

• When solar energy escapes to space

• When clouds only allow certain colors of light through to the Earth's surface

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Select three common greenhouse gases

• oxygen

• water vapor

• methane

• helium

• carbon dioxide

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Which latitude receives the most solar energy?

• 0 degrees

• 30 degrees

• 45 degrees

• 90 degrees

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

An ecosystem is made up of smaller groups of

• biomes

• mountains

• flocks

• communities

What is the term for the living parts of the planet, including all organisms and their environments?

• biosphere

• atmosphere

• hydrosphere

• hemisphere

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of the following is NOT a biotic factor?

• plants

• animals

• ocean currents

• insects

Select the three common ways to gather ecological data

• modeling

• speculation

• experimentation

• observation

• editorializing

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4