Effects of climate change

What is the difference between climate and weather?

• Climate averages the weather conditions in a specific place over a long period of time, while weather describes the state of the atmosphere at a specific moment in time.

• Climate describes the weather conditions at night, while weather describes the conditions during the daytime.

• There is not a difference between climate and weather.

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Which of the following factors impact the climate on Earth? (select all that apply)

• Sun (solar radiation)

• Oceans (ocean currents)

• Global wind patters

• Other stuff like volcanos, altitude, Earth's orbit, amount of vegetation

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Select the greenhouse gas(es)

• Carbon dioxide

• Methane

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen gas

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Which of the following sets of evidence supports global warming?

• CO2 levels rising
• Sea Levels rising
• Glacier mass decreasing
• All of the Above

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Which of the following is NOT evidence of global warming?

• Sea level rising

• Loss of Arctic Sea Ice

• Less Water Vapor in the Air

• More extreme weather events

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How do scientists collect evidence about climate?

• Direct Measures: remote sensing from space with satellites

• Direct Measures: ground-based measurements of surface temperatures, carbon dioxide concentration and sea level

• Proxy Measures: collecting “proxy data” from tree rings, ice cores, and historical records

• Direct Measures: traveling back in time with a time machine and a thermometer.

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Which human activity contributes the MOST carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?

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• fishing

• farming

• breathing

• burning fossil fuels

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Climate change will affect humans but not animals or plants.

• True

• False

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Climate change will

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• Cause coral reefs to die, throwing off the marine ecosystem.

• Change migration times of some animals

• Cause change in where plants grow best because of warming climate

• Kill off any diseases that would be harmful to animals.

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Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have been implicated in which of the following?

• Increased global warming
• Increased seawater acidity
• decreased seawater temperatures
• both increased global warming and increased seawater acidity

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