How much do you know about climate change?

Where is your grade?

• Grade 10

• Grade 11

• Grade 12

Where do you live? (Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh city,...)

What is your gender?

• Male

• Female

• Don't want to share

What is your background?

(you can choose Natural Science if you study mainly Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology at school; or you can choose Social Science if you study Literature, Geography or History)

• Natural Science

• Social Science

Where do you often hear information about climate change?

• Teachers during class

• Extracurricular activities

• Reading materials on the Internet

• Friends during group discussions

• Social media

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Weather describes the average characteristics of the climate over a long time at a specific place.

Note: In scientific words, weather is the current state of the atmosphere and climate is the average state of the atmosphere

• True

• False

• Not sure

Answer explanation

Climate change is generally defined as a significant variation of average weather conditions—say, conditions becoming warmer, wetter, or drier—over several decades or more. It’s the longer-term trend that differentiates climate change from natural weather variability.

Source: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-climate-change#whatis

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What has the scientific community concluded about climate change?

• There is an agreement that it is both real and man-made.

• Scientists have shown it to be real but are not sure whether it is man-made.

• Scientists do not think climate change is real.

• There is little agreement.

• There is an agreement that it is real and human promote it.

Answer explanation

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading scientific body on the subject, declared last August that human-caused warming of the atmosphere, land and oceans is “unequivocal.” The only way to limit warming is to zero out emissions of greenhouse gases produced by burning fossil fuels and other human activities, the IPPC said.

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Which of these factors most contributes to current global warming?

• Sunspots

• The hole in the ozone layer

• Littering

• Carbon dioxide emissions

Answer explanation

Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere, is the main cause of global warming. Scientists do not think changes in the sun can explain the warming we’re seeing. The seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica represents a major and dramatic instance of human activity damaging the Earth’s atmosphere, but it is not a major cause of warming.

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What is the greenhouse effect?

• The measurement of plant growth in areas affected by flooding.

• The phenomenon in which gases in the Earth's atmosphere prevent heat from escaping into space.

• When climate change affects ecosystems.

• The impact trees have on global temperatures.

Answer explanation

Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and water vapor, trap heat energy emanating from the Earth and prevent it from going into space. This keeps the planet much warmer than it would be otherwise. But human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, are adding even more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and causing added warming.

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True or false: Climate change is heating the world evenly.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

A Washington Post analysis found that numerous hot spots have already exceeded the critical 2 degree Celsius (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) mark, far above the global average. In general, higher latitudes, such as the Arctic, are warming faster than mid-latitude regions.

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