Global Warming / Climate Change / Deforestation

"Climate" is driven by what?

• Fossil Fuels

• Deforestation

• Pollution

• The Sun

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Climate changes over time are due to

• natural fluctuations in weather

• man-made and natural causes

• the earth's rotation

• the distance from the sun

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Climate is ...

• the average weather of a particular part of the world at different times of the year

• melting glaciers

• what we experience from day to day, and can change without much notice

• always hot and dry

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Human created (anthropogenic) global climate change is

• The gradual warming of the earth caused by the greenhouse effect.

• Has everything to do with the carbon atom.

• Not believed to be true by most of the scientific community.

• Both Option 1 and Option 2 are correct.

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All of the following are natural sources that can change the climate except…

• Volcanoes: They release sulfur dioxide and dust particles that can reflect light.

• Changes in Solar Radiation from the Sun.

• The burning of coal and other fossil fuels by humans.

• Clouds: They reflect light back into space before it reaches the surface.

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What are the two processes that result in a natural carbon dioxide - oxygen balance on our planet?

• Respiration and Excretion

• Photosynthesis and Respiration

• Burning fossil fuels and cutting down trees

• Agriculture and Photosynthesis

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What is this a diagram of?

• The ozone layer being destroyed

• How sunlight is reflected into space

• The Greenhouse Effect

• Weather patterns

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• Air pollution

• Over population

• Sea level rising

• Continents drifting apart

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• methane

• carbon monoxide

• nitrogen

• sulfur

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One pressing problem with global warming is

• deciding what, if anything, we can do about it

• the destruction of forests

• the hole in the ozone layer

• the melting of glaciers

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