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Increasing quantities of CO₂ (Carbon Dioxide) in the atmosphere will cause air temperatures to be _____. 

• warmer
• cooler

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Why are too many greenhouse gases bad for the environment?

• They cause trees to die.

• They release heat and will be the cause of the next ice age.

• They trap heat in our atmosphere causing the planet to warm up.

• They are fossil fuels which pollute our environment.

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What is climate change?

• The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.

• a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, and other pollutants.

• The action of clearing a wide area of trees.

• a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.

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What evidence is there to support that Global Warming is occurring?

• Rising ocean temperatures

• Declining arctic sea glacers

• Sea levels rising

• Increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

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Over the past 50 years temperatures have

• stayed the same

• increased

• decreased

• all the above

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1.  Which of these could increase average global temperatures? 

• A.  increased use of fossil fuels 
• A.  increased ocean plants 
• A.  decreased carbon dioxide emissions 
• A.  increased numbers of animal species

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Why is burning fossil fuels bad for the environment?

• It destroys the ozone layer

• It adds harmful mercury to waterways

• The clouds it creates bring excess rain and flooding

• The gases emitted lead to global climate change

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Which would have the least impact on global climate changes?

• producing energy using oil

• producing energy using coal

• producing energy using hydroelectric plants

• producing energy using natural gas

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What is a consequence of continued use of coal for power production?

• increase in nitrate concentrations

• increase in groundwater levels

• decrease in coal reserves

• decrease in greenhouse gas emissions

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At what time did global warming start to occur?

• Last year

• At the beginning of the last decade

• Around the time of the Industrial Revolution

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