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Earth's Dynamic Climate Review

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the average weather for a particular time and region called?
a)
drought
b)
weather
c)
emissions
d)
climate
2.

Seasons are caused by...

a)

The elliptical orbit of the planet around the sun

b)

The tilt of the planet

c)

The curve of the earth

d)

The oceans currents

3.

Earth's seasons can change over 100,000 years as the orbit changes.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

The earth can absorb and store heat from the sun. This is known as.

a)

Carbon sink

b)

Heat sink

c)

Heat absorption

d)

Albedo

5.

Which of the following are greenhouse gases?

a)

Carbon dioxide

b)

Methane

c)

Water vapor

d)

All answers are correct

6.
The Earth acts like a greenhouse that catches and traps heat from the sun.
a)
true
b)
false
7.
What happens to the temperature if more greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere?
a)
Temperature goes up
b)
Temperature goes down
8.
Without the Greenhouse Effect the Earth would be
a)
warm 
b)
cold
c)
dead
9.

How is the greenhouse effect produced?

a)

When solar energy trespasses the atmosphere.

b)

When some energy is reflected back to earth.

c)

When the green house is burned.

d)

When the sun doesn't emit radiation.

10.
Increased carbon dioxide may cause global warming by
a)
allowing more sunlight into the atmosphere.
b)
reflecting more sunlight from clouds.
c)
reducing the amount of oxygen in the air.   
d)
trapping more heat in the atmosphere.
11.
Which is a natural source of greenhouse gases?
a)
aerosols
b)
deforestation
c)
volcanic eruptions
d)
burning fossil fuels
12.

This Greenhouse gas is produced when certain bacteria break down nitrogen-rich compounds for food.

a)

Water vapour

b)

Carbon dioxide

c)

Methane

d)

Nitrous oxide

13.

____________ absorbs and stores atmospheric crabon

a)

Heat sink

b)

Carbon absorption

c)

Carbon stores

d)

Carbon sink

14.
Warm ocean currents generally come from
a)
The North Pole
b)
The South Pole
c)
The Equator
d)
Both A and B
15.
The warm, strong current off the coast of Florida is the 
a)
Gulf Stream
b)
California Current
c)
North Equatorial Current
d)
Brazil Current
16.

In the ocean cold water

a)

sinks at the equator

b)

rises at the poles

c)

sinks at the poles

d)

keeps water from circulating

17.

Anthropogenic means

a)

mass cutting trees

b)

human caused

c)

the ocean currents

d)

sun flares

18.

Samples of permanent ice, used to meausre historical levels of greenhouse gases, taken from the Arctic or Antarctic

a)

carbon footprint

b)

bioclimate profile

c)

ice cores

d)

global climate model

19.

Tropical storms become more severe as

a)

oceans become warmer

b)

the axis of the earth tilts

c)

more people move into that area

20.

Polar ice-caps, permafrost or mountain glaciers

a)

Cryosphere

b)

Geosphere

c)

Hydrosphere

d)

Biosphere

e)

Atmosphere

21.

Heat is concentrated at

a)

the poles

b)

the equator

c)

the mid-Atlantic ridge

22.

Bacteria in the ocean produces which greenhouse gas

a)

Carbon dioxide

b)

methane

c)

water vapour

d)

nitrous oxide

23.

London England is warmer than Barrie due to

a)

the location to the equator

b)

the gulf current

c)

the curve of the land

d)

it is not warmer