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Climate Change - Skyndipróf
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  • 1. Where do greenhouse gases trap energy?
A) Atmosphere
B) In soil
C) Outer space
D) Mountains
  • 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) 5 million years
B) 500 hundred years
C) 5 billion years
D) 5 thousand years
  • 4. What is one reason why scientists think that the sea level is getting higher?
A) the ozone is warming the ocean
B) melting glaciers add more water to the sea
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) industrial revolution
C) great depression
D) during the Jurassic Park era
  • 6. Which of the following adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere?
A) sailing at Alcova Lake
B) walking to school
C) riding in a car
D) riding a bicycle
  • 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) wind
B) fossil fuels
C) sun
D) sea
  • 9. What effect traps heat next to the earth?
A) the biological decay effect
B) the hot house effect
C) the greenhouse effect
D) the thermocouple effect
  • 10. What is the main man-made green house gas?
A) carbon dioxide
B) hydrogen
C) oxygen
D) dilithium crystals
  • 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) Plants use it to make food
C) When humans breath it in
D) To help fires burn hotter
  • 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) a better place to live
B) becoming colder
C) becoming more stable
D) becoming warmer
  • 15. Climate change is primary due to _____ activities.
A) solar sunspot
B) human
C) ocean sea current
  • 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) dilithium crystal
D) oxygen
  • 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) it is just a normal cycle of the earth's climate
B) all of these
C) that there is not enough evidence to say that climate change is bad
D) politicians made up global warming to scare people into doing what they want you to do
  • 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) false
B) true
  • 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) false
B) true
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