WorksheetsGlobal Warming and Extreme Weather Events
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
One impact of rising temperatures is a greater likelihood of "extreme" weather events such as heatwaves, intense rainfall, droughts, flooding, hurricanes, snowstorms, and tornadoes.
Choose the synonym "extreme".
acute
safe
live
fine
What is the greenhouse effect?
Where heat is kept out of the atmosphere
Where heat is retained in the atmosphere
Where more light is let into the atmosphere
Where less light is let into the atmosphere
What could one effect of global warming be?
More islands forming
More volcanic eruptions
Sea level rise
More landslides
Humans burn______________ fuels which can add greenhouse gases.
Energy
Carbonic
Liquid
Fossil
anthropogenic global warming has significantly decreased the likelihood of record heat events in more than 80 percent of the world.
true
false
Forest fires, landslides are phenomena of global warming? True/False
true
false
What is drought?
A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
The covering or submerging of normally land with a large amount of water
mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system
A heavy fall of snow, especially with a high wind.
How do heat waves affect people?
No effect
Make people comfortable
The number of deaths due to the sun is increasing rapidly
People like the hot sun to go to the beach and travel
Heat waves are of concern because of the immediate effects they have on human health and on the land
true
false
Which is an example of climate change?
drought(n)
famine(n)
flood(n)
tsunami(n)
