Climate Change Quiz

When was the last glacial maximum in the UK (according to the Geofile)?

• 10,000 years

• 21,000 years

• 15,000 years

• 5,000 years

What was the approximate temperature during the Lateglacial interstadial (15,000 years ago) in summer?

• 10°C

• 15°C

• 17°C

• 20°C

What is the name of the warm interglacial phase that we are currently in?

• Quaternary

• Holocene

• Younger Dryas

• Last Glacial Maximum

What is thought to have been the main driver of the Younger Dryas episode (12,000 - 11,500 BP)?

• Volcanic eruptions

• Solar radiation

• Ocean currents

• Human activity

What is the term used to describe the period around 15,000 BP when temperatures rose rapidly?

• Younger Dryas

• Holocene

• Lateglacial Interstadial

• Last Glacial Maximum

What do ice cores provide evidence for?

• Short-term climatic changes

• Detailed evidence of past climates over thousands of years

• Immediate weather conditions

• Only recent climatic changes

What is the primary control on the distribution of many plant and animal species?

• Temperature and precipitation

• Wind speed and humidity

• Soil composition and sunlight

• Altitude and latitude

What is the primary method used to estimate past environmental conditions from plant and animal remains?

• Comparison between species' fossil and present-day distributions

• Measuring the size of plant and animal remains

• Counting the number of plant and animal remains

• Observing the color of plant and animal remains

What does the complexity of past environmental changes suggest?

• Future climate change may be difficult to understand and control.

• Future climate will be constant.

• Future climate will be easy to predict.

• Future climate will have no significant changes.

How deep did the ice get in the British Isles during the last glacial maximum (21,000 years BP)?

• 100m

• 200m

• 300m

• 400m