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Global Warming and Extreme Weather Events

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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1.

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".

a)

acute

b)

safe

c)

live

d)

fine

2.

What is the greenhouse effect?

a)

Where heat is kept out of the atmosphere

b)

Where heat is retained in the atmosphere

c)

Where more light is let into the atmosphere

d)

Where less light is let into the atmosphere

3.

What could one effect of global warming be?

a)

More islands forming

b)

More volcanic eruptions

c)

Sea level rise

d)

More landslides

4.

Humans burn______________ fuels which can add greenhouse gases.

a)

Energy

b)

Carbonic

c)

Liquid

d)

Fossil

5.

anthropogenic global warming has significantly decreased the likelihood of record heat events in more than 80 percent of the world.

a)

true

b)

false

6.

Forest fires, landslides are phenomena of global warming? True/False

a)

true

b)

false

7.

What is drought?

a)

A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.

b)

The covering or submerging of normally land with a large amount of water

c)

mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system

d)

A heavy fall of snow, especially with a high wind.

8.

How do heat waves affect people?

a)

No effect

b)

Make people comfortable

c)

The number of deaths due to the sun is increasing rapidly

d)

People like the hot sun to go to the beach and travel

9.

Heat waves are of concern because of the immediate effects they have on human health and on the land

a)

true

b)

false

10.

Which is an example of climate change?

a)

drought(n)

b)

famine(n)

c)

flood(n)

d)

tsunami(n)