"Climate Change Verb Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere [increased/increase] by more than 40% since the Industrial Revolution.

In 2015, world leaders [gathered/gather] in Paris to negotiate a global agreement on climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [published/publish] a report in 2018 warning of catastrophic consequences if global temperatures continue to rise.

Many countries [signed/sign] the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, committing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

The United States [withdrew/withdraw] from the Paris Agreement in 2020, but rejoined under the Biden administration in 2021.

Scientists [discovered/discover] evidence of human-caused climate change as far back as the 19th century.

The Arctic sea ice [reduced/reduce] by an average of 13.1% per decade from 1979 to 2018.

The Amazon rainforest [lost/lose] an area the size of Greece between 2000 and 2018 due to deforestation.

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet [caused/cause] sea levels to rise at an accelerating rate.

Countries [pledged/pledge] to take more ambitious action on climate change at the COP26 conference in Glasgow.