CLIMATE CHANGE

The patterns that weather forms in an area over seasons and years is known as that region's ____________

• Weather

• Season

• Climate

• Global Warming

There are only two different types of climates found on Earth: tropical and desert

• True

• False

Climates change very slowly, over hundreds or thousands of years.

• True

• False

Hundreds of millions of years ago, nearly the whole planet was covered with what?

• lush vegetation

• ice

• water

• desert

Climatologists get clues about the climate of the past by studying what? There is more than one answer.

• Rocks

• Fossils

• TikTok

• Glaciers

When did climate change (CO2 in the atmosphere) increase significantly?

• 1800s Industrial Revolution

• 1600s Industrial Revolution

• 1800 Crusades

• 1600 Crusades

What is the definition of "Greenhouse Effect?"

• Gases that increase Earth's temperature

• when the gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap heat from the Sun and keep the planet warm

• the pattern of weather that occurs over time

• When our climate changes

What is the definition of weather?

• The condition of the air/atmosphere around the Earth

• The pattern of weather over time

• Rain and Snow

• When water falls from the sky

What is the definition of climate?

• The condition of the air around the Earth

• The rainforest

• The pattern of weather over time

• How hot it is in a certain place

What types of data have scientists collected related to climate change?

• Measuring Earth’s current temperature and CO2

• Examining ice/glacier melting

• Taking educated guesses

• The ice caps are getting bigger/growing