Human Activities and Climate Change

Which of the following options would be the most reasonable change that could result from an increase in the burning of fossil fuels?

• More trees will be chopped down

• There would be a global rise in temperatures

• Ecosystems would become more diverse

• Rates of photosynthesis would decrease.

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Human activities are increasing the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

• True

• False

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What is an effect of global warming?

• melting glaciers and rising sea levels

• population is increasing

• more forest areas

• all of the above

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One cause of rising global temperatures is increasing levels of _________________________.

• people

• forest

• farm land

• greenhouse gases

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Climate scientists agree human activity is causing global temperatures to rise.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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How do human activities contribute to changes in climate?

• By releasing greenhouse gases

• By using renewable energy sources

• By planting more trees

• By reducing air pollution

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The most abundant greenhouse gas is _______________.

• oxygen

• nitrogen

• carbon dioxide

• all of the above

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Gases and pollution leading to a slow increase of the temperature of Earth's atmosphere.

• Global Warming

• Global Climate Change

• Greenhouse Gases

• Fossil Fuels

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Study the graph of global temperature anomalies due to global warming. What is the temperature anomaly in 2000?

• 0.6 degrees

• -0.5 degrees

• 0.5 degrees

• 0.2 degrees

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Over the past 200 years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has

• decreased slightly.

• increased steadily.

• stayed about the same

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