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The average global climate is getting warmer.

• True
• False

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Carbon dioxide levels in the air have changed throughout earth's history.  The difference today is how ______ the change is happening.

• rapidly 
• slowly 
• wide spread

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Which of the following have been linked to climate change? 

• droughts
• flooding
• melting of polar ice caps
• all of the above

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The graph shows that the temperature for the past 10,000 years, compared with the previous 400,000 years, has been:

• getting warmer
• staying stable
• getting cooler

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The overall trend in the data would be best described as 

• increasing
• decreasing
• unchanging
• unrelated

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Long-term change in the earth's climate, due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature

• Global Climate Change

• Human impact on climate

• Weather

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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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How would the carbon dioxide emissions trading bill, cap and trade, impact global climate change?

• Limits would be placed on greenhouse gas emissions. Permits would be needed to produce more pollution.

• Greenhouse gas production would be banned

• For every ton of carbon produced an equal value of trees would need to be planted.

• Stict limits would be set on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions could be produced.

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Melting of glaciers and polar ice caps....

• will result in cooler temperatures in the Arctic
• will result in sea-levels rising
• Will have no effect on ecosystems
• None of the above

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Which of these is true about the melting of sea ice?

• The cold, fresh water added helps to cools the ocean, counteracting the warming.

• Ice has a higher albedo than the ocean's surface and so as ice melts, the ocean absorbs more heat.

• The melting of sea ice strands polar bears who cannot swim between the "islands" of ice.

• AcTUalLY ice ISN'T melting, it's all a conspiracy.

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