Quiz 2: Climate change & Vocabulary Quiz

What is the primary cause of the greenhouse effect?

• Wind patterns

• Trapped solar heat by gases

• Moon's gravity

• Ice sheet melting

What is the most common greenhouse gas?

• Methane

• Nitrous oxide

• Water vapor

• Carbon dioxide

Which gas is completely manmade and harms the ozone layer?

• Methane

• CFCs

• CO2

• Nitrous oxide

What is deforestation?

• Cutting trees for timber only

• Growing crops in forests

• Clearing forests for human use

• Replanting trees

What causes ocean levels to rise?

• Melting glaciers and ice sheets

• Reduced rainfall

• Dry soil

• Solar activity

Which gas traps more heat than others but is less abundant?

• Water vapor

• Methane

• Nitrous oxide

• Oxygen

How has human activity increased CO2 since the Industrial Revolution?

• Deforestation

• Burning fossil fuels

• Land use changes

• All of the above

What happens when carbon dioxide is absorbed by oceans?

• Ocean salinity increases

• Ocean acidification

• Oceans cool

• Ocean color changes

What happens to the upper atmosphere due to greenhouse gases?

• It heats up

• It stays the same

• It cools

• It evaporates

Why are climate models that exclude greenhouse gases inaccurate?

• They don't measure sunlight

• They ignore cloud formation

• They fail to explain current warming

• They exclude volcanic eruptions