WorksheetsClimate Change Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is climate?
The average weather conditions for a location measured over a period of 30 years
The day-to-day changes in the conditions of the atmosphere
The long-term change in the average global temperature
The repeating pattern of glacial and interglacial periods
What is the Quaternary period?
A geological period that started about 2.6 million years ago and runs up to the present date
A period of significant change in climate
A period of repeating glacial and interglacial periods
A period with reliable temperature measurements
What do the downward spikes on the graph represent?
Glacial periods
Interglacial periods
Warmer temperatures
Cooler temperatures
How often do the cold glacial periods repeat?
Every 100,000 years
Every 10-15,000 years
Every 30 years
Every 4 degrees
What do the upward spikes on the graph represent?
Interglacial periods
Glacial periods
Cooler temperatures
Warmer temperatures
How long do the interglacial periods last?
10-15,000 years
100,000 years
30 years
4 degrees
How do scientists know what temperatures were like in the distant past?
By using proxy data or clues from the past
By measuring temperatures with thermometers
By analyzing ice cores
By looking at tree rings
What does sediment at the bottom of the ocean reveal?
Information about past water temperature and level of oxygen in the atmosphere
Information about current weather conditions
Information about glacial and interglacial periods
Information about tree ring patterns
What do Antarctic ice cores reveal?
Information about past concentrations of gases and temperature
Information about current weather conditions
Information about glacial and interglacial periods
Information about tree ring patterns
How deep are the extracted ice cores?
Up to three kilometers
Up to one million years
Up to six thousand years
Up to 2.6 million years
What do wider tree rings indicate?
Warm and wet years
Cool and dry years
Glacial periods
Interglacial periods
What do pine trees in California provide information about?
What the climate was like in the past
Current weather conditions
Glacial and interglacial periods
Temperature measurements
What do proxy data indicate?
Climate change
Actual temperature at the time
Glacial and interglacial periods
Temperature measurements
What is the main source of direct temperature measurements?
Thermometers
Proxy data
Ice cores
Tree rings
What is the Quaternary period known for?
Fluctuations between cold glacial and warm interglacial periods
Reliable temperature measurements
Proxy data
Actual temperature at the time
