Paleoclimate

Paleoclimate

11th - 12th Grade

28 Qs

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Paleoclimate

Paleoclimate

Assessment

Quiz

Science

11th - 12th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

NGSS
HS-ESS3-5, HS-ESS2-6, HS-ESS2-4

+13

Standards-aligned

Created by

Charles Martinez

FREE Resource

28 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Paleoclimatologists can use historical data to study temperature and precipitation trends of the past. These observations can be found in all of the following EXCEPT...
Farmers logs
Newspaper accounts
Your local TV news
Travellers' Diaries

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Paleoclimatologists can use corals to study the climate of the past. By looking at oxygen isotope ratios they can determine the ___________ of that time period.
Precipitation
Temperature 
Barometric Pressure
Humidity

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Paleoclimatologists can use fossilized pollen to study the climate of the past. Once the fossil is dated they can determine what kind of plants lived at that time. From that they can start to determine the ______________ of that time period. 
Dew Point
Temperature 
Barometric Pressure
Humidity

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Paleoclimatologists can use ice cores to study the climate of the past. Ice cores allow them to get samples of the atmosphere of the past, as well as determine the temperature of the climate in the past. They do this by looking at all of the following EXCEPT... 
Air Bubbles
Oxygen Isotopes
Dust
Crystal structure

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Paleoclimatologists can use tree rings to study the climate of the past. The size of the ring can help them determine the ________________ of the year the ring represents. 
Precipitation 
Temperature 
Temperature and Precipitation
Humidity

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Paleoclimatologists can use ocean and lake sediments to study the climate of the past. In these cores they look at the chemical composition of the soil and look at small fossils. From this they can determine the ___________ of the past.
Precipitation 
Temperature 
Barometric Pressure
Humidity

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which  is  not a climate proxy?
climatograph
tree ring
coral reef
stable isotopes

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