Climate Change

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What is the direct cause of rising sea levels?

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Melting Land Ice

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What happens to sea levels when floating sea ice melts?

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Sea levels do not rise because the ice displaces the same amount of ocean water as the melted ice would displace.

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Melting land ice...

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causes sea levels to rise because it adds water to the ocean.

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Possible human solutions for limiting global warming and climate change are...

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All of the above: being more energy-efficient, using renewable sources of energy, removing carbon from fossil fuel emissions.

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MAIN greenhouse gas responsible for Climate Change is: nitrogen, carbon, carbon dioxide, methane

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carbon dioxide

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Which natural process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

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photosynthesis

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All living things on earth are part of:

• the biosphere
• the hydrosphere
• the atmosphere
• the geosphere

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the biosphere

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T/F - The amount of carbon dioxide CO2 in the atmosphere is decreasing.

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False

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Which human activity contributes the MOST carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? fishing, farming, breathing, burning fossil fuels

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burning fossil fuels