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Climate Change
Beigesteuert von: Ochs
  • 1. Where do greenhouse gases trap energy?
A) Atmosphere
B) Mountains
C) Outer space
D) In soil
  • 2. Which of these is a greenhouse gas?
A) sulphur dioxide
B) oxygen
C) nitrogen
D) carbon dioxide
  • 3. For how long has the Earth's climate been changing?
A) 500 hundred years
B) 5 billion years
C) 5 million years
D) 5 thousand years
  • 4. What is one reason why scientists think that the sea level is getting higher?
A) melting glaciers add more water to the sea
B) more ships make the sea higher
C) the ozone is warming the ocean
  • 5. At what point in history did humans start to add lots of green house gases into the atmosphere?
A) industrial revolution
B) last ice age
C) during the Jurassic Park era
D) great depression
  • 6. Which of the following adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere?
A) riding a bicycle
B) sailing at Alcova Lake
C) walking to school
D) riding in a car
  • 7. Which of the following is a way to study past climates?
A) size of fossils
B) sunspots
C) tree rings
  • 8. Where does the energy come from to keep the earth warm?
A) sun
B) fossil fuels
C) wind
D) sea
  • 9. What effect traps heat next to the earth?
A) the greenhouse effect
B) the hot house effect
C) the thermocouple effect
D) the biological decay effect
  • 10. What is the main man-made green house gas?
A) oxygen
B) carbon dioxide
C) hydrogen
D) dilithium crystals
  • 11. What is the main way that carbon dioxide is made?
A) Planting trees
B) Burning fuels
C) During severe thunderstorms
D) Boiling water
  • 12. What is the main way that carbon dioxide is removed from the environment?
A) When humans breath it in
B) To help fires burn hotter
C) During severe thunderstorms
D) Plants use it to make food
  • 13. Renewable sources of energy like solar and wind power _____.
A) use nuclear fuels to exist
B) use no fossil fuels to exist
C) use fossil fuels to exist
  • 14. The earth's climate is changing and the world is _____.
A) becoming colder
B) a better place to live
C) becoming more stable
D) becoming warmer
  • 15. Climate change is primary due to _____ activities.
A) ocean sea current
B) human
C) solar sunspot
  • 16. Gasoline, oil, propane, and coal are types of _____.
A) renewable energy sources
B) fossil fuels
C) kinetic energy
  • 17. Carbon dioxide is one of the main greenhouse gases. Another greenhouse gas is _____.
A) methane
B) hydrogen
C) oxygen
D) dilithium crystal
  • 18. Climate change can cause an increase in _____.
A) hurricanes
B) all of these
C) tornado's
D) floods
  • 19. People who do not believe that the world's climate is changing would tell you that _____.
A) all of these
B) politicians made up global warming to scare people into doing what they want you to do
C) it is just a normal cycle of the earth's climate
D) that there is not enough evidence to say that climate change is bad
  • 20. Tree rings show years that are very wet, normal or dry.
A) false
B) true
  • 21. Ice core samples can tell you when there are severe hurricanes.
A) false
B) true
  • 22. Greater sunspot activity can cause communication satellites to break down.
A) true
B) false
  • 23. Carbon dating can be used to figure out how old something is.
A) true
B) false
  • 24. The earth's magnetic field has never changed or moved.
A) true
B) false
  • 25. If the earth has a low albedo, the temperatures will increase.
A) true
B) false
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