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The colour change of the ice in Greenland means that surface ice retains more heat and therefore melts at a greater rate.

• True
• False

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What happens when energy from the Sun encounters a white surface (ice or snow)? The energy is:

• reflected off the surface and leaves the atmosphere
• reflected off the surface and trapped in the atmosphere
• absorbed by the surface and stored in the land and ocean
• absorbed by the surface, radiating heat into the atmosphere

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Which photograph shows the land being less able to reflect incoming solar radiation (having a lower albedo)?

• top image (1909)
• bottom image (2005)

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What is the greenhouse effect?

• warming of the earth due to gases in our atmosphere.
• cooling of the earth due to gases in our atmosphere

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What is the main difference between the enhanced and natural greenhouse effect?

• natural-more heat escapes to space
  enhanced-less heat escapes to space
• natural-less heat escapes to space
  enhanced-more heat escapes to space

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How does the warm waters of the Gulf Stream affect the climate in North Carolina? 

• It makes it colder and drier
• It makes it warmer and wetter
• It makes it colder and wetter
• It makes it warmer and drier

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a long-term pattern of weather including temperature and precipitation

• climate
• solar energy
• precipitation
• temperature

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Currently, about 10% of Earth is covered with ice year-round. If this ice melts, what could happen to Earth’s temperature?

• Increase
• Decrease
• Remain the Same
• Not enough information 

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Unequal heating of earth has an effect on which factors?

• Salinity

• Temperature

• Rainfall

• Productivity

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Major factors affecting : climate change

• volcanic eruptions

• emission of greenhouse gases

• disappearance of ice

• deforestation

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