Solving Climate Change

Students are asked to complete a research project on climate change. Which of the following is the best set of data to use in the report?

• the average temperatures of two cities in North

  America for 20 years

• Earth's average temperatures since the year

  1800

• a classroom log of temperatures since

  September

• day and night temperatures over the Atlantic

  Ocean for 10 years

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Which of the following is largely responsible for

depleting Earth's ozone layer?

• PCB's

• DDT

• CFC's

• CO₂

What activities release greenhouse gases (cause climate change)?

• Burning oils to make planes and cars move

• Dumping trash on landfills

• Cutting down trees

• All of them

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

How can we stop climate change?

• Walk to close places instead of using the car

• Turn off the lights when you're not in a room

• Recycle more

• All of them

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What is the objective of this goal?

• Combat climate change and its impacts

• Help people consume less food

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

What is the global goal we'll be working on?

• No Poverty

• Gender Equality

• Climate Action

• All of them

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

The main human activity that releases greenhouse gases is

• using bottled water

• burning fossil fuels

• texting on cellphones

• eating meat

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

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

• being more energy-efficient

• using renewable sources of energy

• removing carbon from fossil fuel emissions

• all of the above

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

What are greenhouse gases?

• gases that cause climate change

• gases that emit green smoke

• gases that are used to make green colored glass

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Visible light reaches Earth’s surface while infrared light is trapped as heat. Which characteristic of Earth’s atmosphere causes this to happen?

• the hole in the ozone

• the greenhouse effect

• atmospheric pressure

• the inversion layer