Analyze and Interpret Data on Atmospheric Chemistry and the Greenhouse Effect

Label the following information in the graph.

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b

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Amount of Carbon Dioxide in 2001

Amount of CO2 in 2005

Lowest amount of CO2

Highest amount of CO2

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Based on the graph, when did carbon dioxide levels start increasing more than normal?

• They have always been increasing

• The industrial revolution

• When we went to space

• The day that Mr. Gale was born

At what point in human history did global carbon dioxide levels start to rise?

• World War I

• World War II

• The Industrial Revolution

• The invention of the car

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The Industrial Revolution in the 1800s created more manufacturing, which directly produced more of which Greenhouse Gas?

• Carbon Dioxide

• Methane

• Water Vapor

• CFCs

Answer explanation

Factories and machines all burn fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas, which all produce carbon dioxide

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The two greenhouse gases that have the greatest impact on climate change are (a)  

• Chlorofluorocarbons and methane

• Methane and water vapor

• Methane and water vapor

• Methane and carbon dioxide

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Scientists are concerned that greenhouse gases are causing ___ change

• land

• climate

• air

• Earth

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The graph shows changes in the levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide over time. What might be one way to reverse the trend shown in the graph?

• Increase the rate of deforestation.

• Increase the rate of respiration.

• Use more fossil fuels.

• Plant more trees.

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During what period does Earth have a warmer climate and high atmospheric CO2?

• Antiglacial

• Glacial

• Ice Age

• Interglacial

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Which one of these releases a lot of methane (CH₄) into the atmosphere & contributes to climate change?

• Plants doing photosynthesis

• Humans breathing

• Cow farts

• Using air conditioning

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Methane is naturally produced by

• decomposition

• volcanic eruptions

• denitrification

• evapotranspiration

• forest fires

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