Global Warming and Climate Change

How is Earth's climate currently changing?

• It is getting colder.

• It is getting warmer.

• It is staying the same.

• Sometimes it's warmer and sometimes it's colder.

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What does burning fossil fuels do?

• Releases carbon dioxide.

• Releases oxygen.

• Raises the ocean levels.

• Melts the glaciers.

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How have carbon dioxide levels changed over the last 200 years?

• They have decreased.

• They have increased.

• They have stayed the same.

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How is climate change affecting the north and south polar regions?

• The ice is getting larger.

• The ice is getting colder.

• The ice is melting.

• They are moving closer to the Equator.

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What is the greenhouse effect?

• A way to grow plants in the winter.

• Heat being trapped in the atmosphere by gases like carbon dioxide.

• An alternative to burning fossil fuels.

• A plan to stop global warming.

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Why is the ocean level rising?

• The polar ice caps are melting.

• The continents are moving farther apart.

• Too much salt in the ocean.

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Which of the following is the answer to a question?

• Claim

• Evidence

• Reasoning

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Deforestation means cutting down the forests. How is this causing climate change?

• plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

• plants remove oxygen from the atmosphere.

• plants remove methane from the atmosphere.

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What is evidence?

• The answer to a question.

• Data and observations that support a claim.

• An explanation of how the evidence supports the claim, including outside information.

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This explains how the evidence proves the claim. It includes outside information from an article or textbook.

• claim

• evidence

• reasoning

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