Quiz: Global Warming

By IVAN JIMENEZ
Last updated over 2 years ago
18 Questions
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Upfront Article Quiz Global Warming
1.

Which of these was NOT cited in the 2014 report by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as evidence of climate change?

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The goal of December’s international accord on climate change is to

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According to the article, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have risen 41 percent

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Climate change has devastated the country of Mali by causing

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The author discusses per capita income in Mali to

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How will rising seas in Bangladesh affect other countries, according to Tariq Karim’s prediction?

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Select the sentence from the text that best supports your answer to question 6.

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Based on your reading of the box outlining the Paris climate deal, what might a climate scientist say is a weakness of the climate deal?

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Which country on the graph emitted about 2,250 million metric tons of greenhouse gases?

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China emitted just over three times as many metric tons of greenhouse gases as ___.

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Many want the U.S. to cut emissions to 5,000 million metric tons by 2025. That’s about a ___ from 2012 levels

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In 2012, Iceland emitted about 2.7 million metric tons of greenhouse gases, or about one thousandth of __ emissions.

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Which of these continents does not have a nation on the top 10 list of greenhouse gas emitters?

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