Climate Change Quiz Review

Does the following statement describe weather or climate?

"It was sunny yesterday"

• Weather

• Climate

• Neither

• Both

Answer explanation

Weather is short term

Climate is long term

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Does the following statement describe weather or climate?

"Antarctica has an average temperature of under zero °C every winter"

• Weather

• Climate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which of the following does NOT determine the earth's climate?

• Amount of greenhouse gases

• Level of Nitrogen in the atmosphere

• Latitude

  (horizontal region of the earth)

• Wind & Air Currents

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which climate zone is associated with seasonal climate?

• Tropical Zone

• Polar Zone

• Temperate Zone

Which carbon cycle process releases carbon from decaying organisms?

• Combustion

• Photosynthesis

• Decomposition

• Respiration

Which carbon cycle process releases carbon when fossil fuels are burned?

• Combustion

• Decomposition

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which carbon cycle process absorbs carbon from plants to make glucose?

• Respiration

• Decomposition

• Combustion

• Photosynthesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which carbon cycle process releases carbon when organisms use glucose to make energy?

• Decomposition

• Respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Combustion

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-7

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

Carbon dioxide gas is stored in what part of the earth?

• Lithosphere

• Atmosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Cryosphere

What effect do greenhouse gases have on earth's temperature?

• increases earth temperature

• decreases earth's temperature

• has no effect

• it depends on which type of greenhouse gas

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5