Climate Change Impacts

What is anthropogenic climate change?

• Extreme variability in the climate due to natural causes.

• The rapid change in climate caused by human activity.

• The increase of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels.

• The lack of snow on March 5.

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Which of the following has been linked to climate change?

• Droughts

• Intense Storms

• Melting of Polar Ice Caps

• High Magnitude Earthquakes

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Climate change has endangered the following global animals EXCEPT:

• Arctic animals (polar bears)

• Ocean species such (coral reefs and sea turtles )

• Forest-dwelling animals (Orangutans and Pandas)

• warm weather insects (mosquitos)

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Climate change makes hurricanes stronger because

• warm ocean water evaporates to form hurricanes.

• the hot air moves more to form hurricanes.

• there are more clouds.

• the drought causes hurricanes

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What evidence do we have that the climate is changing?

• Increased global temperatures

• Glaciers and arctic ice are melting

• Sea level is rising

• Cyclical fluctuations of the solar cycle

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How do stronger wildfires and droughts relate to climate change.

• warmer temperatures mean hotter fires

• more evaporation from the ground makes the soil drier

• fires need carbon dioxide to burn

• greenhouse gases reduce the amount of water vapor in the air

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Choose one group that contain all greenhouse gasses!

• Nitrous Oxide (N2O), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), Water Vapor (H2)

• Water vapor (H2O), Oxygen (O2), Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

• Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), Oxygen (O2)

• Nitrogen (N2), Oxygen (O2), Argon (Ar), and Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

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What facts about climate change are indisputable?

• CO2 is a greenhouse gas and greenhouse gases hold heat

• Humans are responsible for increased CO2 in the atmosphere

• Natural CO2 emissions from peat bogs and volcanos are responsible for increased CO2 in the atmosphere.

• The whole in the ozone layer is allowing more solar radiation to reach the earth.

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Climate change impacts the nutritional quality of food.

• True

• False

______ production has declined in recent years due to extreme weather events, plant diseases, and a global water crisis.

• corn and wheat

• wheat and beans

• apples and bananas

• berries and corn

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