Climate Change Quiz

_______________ gases are causing climate change.

• Greenhouse

• My parents'

• Air

• My

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Climate change causes extreme weather conditions such as:

• excessive heat

• drought

• extreme storms

• all of these

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The Greenhouse Effect is the

• rising of sea level over time.

• Earth's atmosphere losing heat.

• trapping of the Sun's warmth in the Earth's atmosphere.

• growing plants in the winter.

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Which one of the following is NOT a possible consequence of global warming?

• lower sea levels

• increased permafrost

• extinction of a species

• healthier coral reefs

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The burning of fossil fuels (coal, gas, and oil) results in the release of _____.

• oxygen

• methane

• nitrogen

• carbon dioxide

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If you took away the atmosphere’s natural greenhouse effect, but everything else stayed the same, Earth’s temperature would

• increase.

• stay the same.

• decrease.

• none of these

Planting new trees helps reduce climate change because they

• create breezes.

• are used for furniture.

• take in carbon dioxide and convert it into oxygen.

• block the release of gases from.

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T or F: Carbon dioxide, oxygen, and methane are some greenhouse gases.

• True

• False

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T or F: Many scientists agree that human activity is adding greenhouse gases to the amount that are in the atmosphere naturally.

• True

• False

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T or F: The greenhouse effect isn’t all bad, it helps to sustain life on earth by naturally trapping heat in the atmosphere.

• True

• False

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