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WWKACC Practice

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the greenhouse effect?
a)
The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation.
b)
The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.
c)
The heating of a solid, such as a rock.
2.
Which of the following are greenhouse gases?
a)
Carbon dioxide
b)
Methane
c)
Water vapor
d)
All answers are correct
3.
What is climate?
a)
What's happening in space at a time and place.
b)
What's happening in our atmosphere at a time and place
c)
The average weather over many years
d)
The average temperature over many years.
4.
The seasons are caused by___________?
a)
The direction the Earth's axis is tilted toward the sun
b)
Tropical Storms
c)
Changes in the moon
d)
The Earth's rotation on its axis
5.

Which could increase average global temperatures?

a)

increased use of fossil fuels

b)

decrease carbon dioxide emissions

c)

decrease rate of deforestation

d)

increase in wetland acreage

6.

Which two are likely to result from global warming?

a)

increase in surface temperatures

b)

reduction in greenhouse gases

c)

rise in ocean levels

d)

decrease in air pollution

7.

Melting land ice...

a)

causes sea levels to rise because it adds water to the ocean.

b)

does not cause sea levels to rise because the water fills the space left by the melted sea ice.

8.

MAIN greenhouse gas responsible for Climate Change is:

a)

nitrogen

b)

carbon

c)

carbon dioxide

d)

methane

9.
Which of the following is the best conclusion that can be made from this graph?
a)
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have been decreasing since 1960
b)
Hawaii has a lot of carbon dioxide
c)
humans have been working hard to decrease carbon dioxide levels
d)
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased steadily since 1960
10.

Which of the following have been changed or altered due to climate change ?

a)

droughts

b)

flooding

c)

melting of polar ice caps

d)

all of the above

11.
Which of the following has cause repeating 100,000-year cycles of ice ages in the past?
a)
an increase in sun spots
b)
several major volcanic eruptions
c)
changes in Earth;s orbit and tilt of its axis
d)
continental drift
12.
Visible light reaches Earth’s surface while infrared light is trapped as heat. Which characteristic of Earth’s atmosphere causes this to happen?
a)
the hole in the ozone
b)
the greenhouse effect
c)
atmospheric pressure
d)
the inversion layer
13.
How do scientists collect evidence about climate? 
a)
using remote sensing from space with satellites
b)
by ground-based measurements of surface temperatures, carbon dioxide concentration and sea level
c)
by collecting “proxy data” from tree rings, ice cores, and historical records
d)
all of the above
14.
If you took away the atmosphere’s natural greenhouse effect, and everything else stayed the same, Earth’s temperature would be 
a)
10-20°F warmer
b)
30-40°F warmer
c)
10-20°F cooler
d)
50-60°F cooler
15.
What is the largest carbon sink in the world?
a)
The Amazon
b)
The Oceans
c)
The Deserts
d)
The Forests
16.

Which of the following are evidence of climate change?

a)

extreme weather events

b)

increase in the average global temperature

c)

melting of polar ice caps

d)

all of the above

17.

The role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to

a)

implement carbon taxes on companies that burn excessive fossil fuels

b)

collect and analyze scientific climate data like that from ice cores

c)

review scientific climate data to assess the current state of climate change

d)

introduce policies to help with mitigation and adaptation strategies

18.

What do scientist look at inside ice cores?

a)

Trapped bubbles that contain gasses

b)

Dirt

c)

How thick the layers are

d)

How many layers there are

19.

If Earth had no greenhouse effect, it would be ________.

a)

colder

b)

hotter

c)

completely covered with water

d)

the same as it is now

20.

CO2 in our atmosphere is a trace gas; its concentration in the air is 387 parts per million, less than a tenth of one percent. If there were no CO2 in the air at all, Earth's surface would become:

a)

about the same temperature as now

b)

5 or 10 degrees F colder

c)

"snowball earth", more than 60 degrees F colder and covered in ice

21.

When climate doubters argue that global warming isn't happening, one approach they use is to:

a)

show a short time series of just a few years, rather than decades;

b)

show a temperature record that's regional, not global;

c)

focus on anecdotal temperature measurement imperfections to argue that there's a consistent bias

d)

all of the reasons given

22.

Which of the following factors describes the impacts of climate change?

a)

Reducing the impacts will not be expensive.

b)

The effects will be short-term.

c)

Everyone is affected uniformly.

d)

Both the problem and the solution involve politics.