Chasing Ice Documentary Review

According to the film, how many of the last 20 years have been the hottest on record?

• 20

• 19

• 2

• 16

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Which of the following terms is used to describe a large mass of ice that formed on land and moves across the Earth's surface?

• glacier

• Antarctica

• the Arctic

• morain

Which term is used to describe when a glacier breaks off into the ocean?

• calving

• splitting

• moraining

• sheeting

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What is currently happening to most glaciers on our planet?

• reducing in size

• increasing in size

• remaining the same size

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What is currently happening to the levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere?

• increasing

• decreasing

• remaining the same

• no clear trend

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What information can you get from an ice core?

• levels of carbon dioxide and how they change over time

• exact dates of climate change from millions of years ago

• fossils of wooly mammoths

• what it was like to live there millions of years ago

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What is cryoconite?

• black dust from pollution and dead organisms that absorbs heat and speeds up ice melt

• runoff from glaciers that warms ocean temperatures

• freshwater extracted from glacier for making bottled water

• a group of individuals that lives on ice sheets

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What is the anticipated sea level rise over the next 50-100 years?

• 1.5 -3 inches

• 1.5 -3 feet

• 16-20 feet

• 6-7 inches

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Which term is used to describe a cavern where water rushes into and eventually underneath a glacier?

• ice slide

• ice sheet

• moulin

• morain