Climate Change

1.What does the picture represent?

• Lines of latitude

• Greenhouse effect

• Climatic zones

• Weather patterns

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Why are forests important in reducing climate change? Trees ____

• use Carbon Dioxide to make food & release oxygen into the atmoshpere

• provide building materials

• are an important food source

• reflect all sunlight away from the Earth

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_____________ is transferred between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere(lithosphere) and biosphere in the Carbon Cycle.

• Oxygen

• Carbon

• Water

• Nitrogen

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What is climate change?

•  What's going on with the atmosphere at any particular time
• A belief or opinion

• An area's pattern of weather over a long period of time
• a long-term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due to the increase in the average atmospheric temperature.

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Which human activity contributes the MOST carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?

• Fishing
• Breathing
• Burning Fossil Fuels
• Farming

What is the primary greenhouse gas released by deforestation?

• Methane

• Nitrous oxide

• Carbon dioxide

• Ozone

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Which of the following is a natural process that contributes to the release of methane?

• Photosynthesis

• Digestion by cattle

• Combustion of coal

• Urbanization

How do human activities such as deforestation and urbanization influence climate change?

• They decrease the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

• They increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

• They have no impact on the climate.

• They help in cooling the Earth's surface.

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Which of the following is a direct consequence of increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?

• Decreased sea levels

• Increased global temperatures

• Reduced air pollution

• Enhanced biodiversity

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What role does deforestation play in the increase of greenhouse gases?

• It increases the number of trees that absorb carbon dioxide.

• It decreases the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by trees.

• It has no effect on greenhouse gas levels.

• It helps in reducing the carbon footprint.

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