Climate Change

What is climate change?

• the average temperature of the earth

• the average precipitation of the earth

• a change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time.

• The average temperature and precipitation of the earth

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True or False: The Earth's climate has constantly been changing.

• True

• False

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What does the greenhouse effect refer to?

• gases in the earth's atmosphere prevent heat from escaping

• gases in the earth's atmosphere help heat escape

• gases in the earth's atmosphere get trapped and make the earth colder

• gases in the earth's atmosphere escape into space

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Climatologists get clues about the climate of the past by studying what? There is more than one answer.

• Tik Tok

• Rocks

• Fossils

• Glaciers

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Which is an example of a human activity that causes greenhouse gases to increase?

• Fossil Fuels

• Deforestation

• Over-farming

• All of the above

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What is the difference between weather and climate?

• Weather takes a long time to change and climate changes quickly

• Weather is about the conditions outside right now and climate refers to weather over a longer period of time

• weather is only about precipitation and climate is about precipitation and temperature

• weather changes daily and climate never changes

Earth is currently experiencing

• a warming trend

• a cooling trend

• a period of unchanging climate

• an ice age

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Which of these are greenhouse gases?

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

• hydrogen

• potassium

What is an affect of glaciers melting?

• beach erosion

• coastal erosion

• rising sea levels

• sea levels decreasing

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Which natural process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

• forest fires

• cellular respiration

• volcanic eruptions

• photosynthesis

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