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Worksheets8.7 Test Review - Global Climate Change
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
What term(s) refer to major changes in temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns, among other climate effects, that typically occur over several decades or longer?
Climate Change
Global Warming
Earth's mean surface temperature
Seasonal Change
What type of energy travels from the sun through space and then through Earth's atmosphere where it is absorbed by Earth's surface?
Thermal Energy
Heat Energy
Solar radiation
Kinetic Energy
What is true about the effects of greenhouse gases?
Greenhouse gases protect the earth from UV radiation.
Greenhouse gases reduce the thermal energy that escapes into space.
Greenhouse gases cause holes in the ozone layer.
Greenhouse gases prevented climate change from occurring in the past.
What can cause a change in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere?
Human Activities
Natural Processes
Both human activities and natural processes
Greenhouse gas concentrations do not change.
Based on the evidence we uncovered in class, which of the following is most likely the cause for the current change in average annual temperatures on Earth?
Solar eclipses.
Photosynthesis by plants and algae.
Strength of solar radiation.
Human activity.
What is the relationship between the concentration of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere and Earth's mean surface temperature?
As greenhouse gas concentrations increase, then Earth's mean surface temperature increases.
As greenhouse gas concentrations increase, then Earth's mean surface temperature decreases.
As greenhouse gas concentrations increase, then Earth's mean surface temperature does not change.
As Earth's mean surface temperature increases, then greenhouse gas concentrations decrease.
Which of the following would be considered evidence of the effect(s) that changes in Earth's climate have had in the past?
price of grain increases like as seen during the little ice age
smaller growth seen in trees as seen during the little ice age
the relationship between sunspots and solar radiation.
both A and B
Which of the following are some of the impacts that we studied as a result of current trend(s) in climate change? Select all that apply.
Decreased sea levels.
More frequent and intense rainfall in some regions.
Increased volcanic activity
Reduced solar activity
More severe weather events.
Examine the trends in per person fossil fuel use, population, and CO2 emissions in Country A and Country B over the same time period in the graphs above.
Figure III shows that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased in both countries from 1985–2005. Based only on the data in the figures, make a claim about what caused the increase in carbon dioxide emissions.
Use the evidence to complete the claim: The increase in carbon dioxide emissions in Figure III for Country A was caused by...
an increase in per person fossil fuel use
an increase in human population
an increase in total CO2 emissions
both a and b
Planet A is similar to Earth is size, location in orbit, distance from its star, geology and atmospheric conditions. Astronomers have evidence that volcanic activity on Planet A has recently become very high, and is still increasing. What prediction could be made on what is the most likely effect of this activity on the atmosphere and temperature of Planet A?
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will decrease, causing temperature to stay the same.
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will stay the same, causing temperature to decrease.
Particulate matter in the atmosphere will increase, causing temperature to decrease.
Particulate matter in the atmosphere will decrease, causing temperature to increase.
