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