Climate Change and Ocean Acidification

 What is the greenhouse effect?

• The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation.
• The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.
• The heating of a solid, such as a rock.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

T/F: Water vapor is a greenhouse gas

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Which natural process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

• forest fires
• volcanic eruptions
• cellular respiration
• photosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which of the following gases IS NOT considered a greenhouse gas?

• carbon dioxide

• nitrogen

• water vapor

• methane

Carbon is stored in

• Trees and other living things
• Oceans
• underground in soil and fossil fuels
• All are correct

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What happens if you remove all of the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? The temperature:

• decreases
• increases
• stays the same

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

What process could algae carry out to make oxygen?

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Digestion

• Phototropism

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Why do scientists think there was no life on earth at first?

• There was not enough oxygen.

• There was not enough nitrogen.

• There was not enough carbon dioxide.

• There was not enough methane.

As water vapour cools, what happens to it?

• It condenses and becomes a liquid.

• It evaporates and becomes a gas.

• It condenses and becomes a gas.

• It evaporates and becomes a liquid.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The atmosphere today contains about ....

• 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen

• 78% oxygen and 21% nitrogen

• 78% carbon dioxide and 21% oxygen

• 78% nitrogen and 21% carbon dioxide

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