Earths Cycles and Climate Change

Humans burn fossil fuels and release CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) into the atmosphere by

• Breathing out CO2

• Drinking water

• Cooking a steak

• Burning coal, natural gas, and oil

Human activity has been identified as contributing to climate change, through heating up the earth by

• Using all the freshwater on earth

• Raising CO2 levels in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution

• Polluting the earth with too much plastic

• Cohesion

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What is the difference between weather and climate? (CHOOSE 2 ANSWERS)

• Weather is the temperature outside now

• Climate is total snowfall

• Climate is the average weather over a long period of time

• Weather is more accurate

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What is the greenhouse effect?

• The trapping of warmth in the atmosphere due to greenhouse gasses

• The average weather over a long period of time

• The current conditions in the atmosphere

• An instagram filter that makes everything look green

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What evidence do we have that the climate is changing?

• Increased global temperatures

• Glaciers and arctic ice are melting

• Sea level is rising

• All of these are evidence the climate is changing

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Which of these activities adds CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) to our atmosphere (SELECT 3)

• Burning fossil fuels

• Volcanic eruptions

• Forest fires

• Photosynthesis

Which of the following is the best conclusion that can be made from this graph?

• atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have been decreasing since 1960
• Hawaii has a lot of carbon dioxide
• humans have been working hard to decrease carbon dioxide levels
• atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased steadily since 1960

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Which of the following have been changed or altered due to climate change ?

• droughts

• flooding

• melting of polar ice caps

• all of the above

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Which of the following is contributing to an INCREASE in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

• deforestation

• photosynthesis

• oceans

• all of the above

• the loss of animal species

 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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