Social Science 1

Which of the following organizations was established immediately following the end of World War II?

• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• The World Climate Research Programme

• The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

• The International Council for Science

• The United Nations

The highest altitude atmospheric zone is known as the

• troposphere

• tratosphere

• mesosphere

• thermosphere

• exosphere

The word Anthropocene derives from the Greek word kainós, meaning

• human

• rock

• new

• age

• sun

The Middle Holocene Subseries is also known as the

• Gelasian Stage

• Northgrippian Stage

• Meghalayan Stage

• Calabrian Stage

• Greenlandian Stage

The Laurentide ice sheet was located in which modern day country?

• Canada

• Brazil

• Ghana

• Russia

• Australia

Solar energy, volcanoes, and greenhouse gasses are all examples of which of the following?

• scales

• positive feedbacks

• negative feedbacks

• forcings

• subsystems

The oldest fossil record of Homo sapiens dates back to approximately

• 1 million years ago

• 300,000 years ago

• 120,000 years ago

• 60,000 years ago

• 11,700 years ago

In which year did the Anthropocene Working Group vote in favor of recognizing the Anthropocene as a formal geological epoch?

• 2019

• 2009

• 2000

• 1995

• 1980

The agreement between thirty-seven nations to reduce emissions by 5 percent between 2008 and 2012 was called the

• Green New Deal

• Paris Agreement

• Kyoto Protocol

• Inflation Reduction Act

• Justice40 Initiative

The creation of the field of climate history was led by

• Christian Pfister

• Rachel Carson

• Dipesh Chakrabarty

• Paul J. Crutzen

• Eugene F. Stoermer