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1.16: Unit 1 Test: Climate Change cloned 3/25/2021
By Jennifer LeVene
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Question 1
1.
How could global warming affect polar regions?
It will make them warmer
It will make them colder
It won't affect them
It will make it rain more
Question 2
2.
It is believed that the burning of fossil fuels causes a build-up of gases in the world's atmosphere called:
Atmospheric temperature
Greenhouse gases
Global warming
Question 3
3.
How do plants affect the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere?
They reduce carbon dioxide levels
They increase carbon dioxide levels
They don't affect carbon dioxide levels
Question 4
4.
Meteorologists studying the change in a region's precipitation over a 20-year period are studying the region's weather.
True
False
Question 5
5.
Which of the following groups of gases are all greenhouse gases? There can be more than one answer.
Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide
Carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen
Methane, nitrogen, CFC's
Water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide
Argon, oxygen, nitrogen
Question 6
6.
Why are China and India's carbon dioxide emissions increasing? (Select all that apply)
Food Production
Industrial Revolution
Ocean Currents
Population Growth
Water usage
Burning of fossil fuels for electricity
Question 7
7.
Over the past 100 years, global carbon dioxide levels have:
increased steadily
increased, with virtually of all the increase occurring in the last 40 years.
fluctuated within a narrow range, with no net increase.
increased, with most of the increase occurring from 1940 to 1980.
decreased steadily, before a sharp increase in the last 20 years.
Question 8
8.
Scientists argue that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is:
Gradually Increasing
Decreasing
Rapidly Increasing
Not increasing
Question 9
9.
Which of the following is NOT a naturally occurring greenhouse gas?
Chlorofluorocarbons
Nitrous oxide
Water vapor
Carbon Dioxide
Question 10
10.
What is the purpose of the ozone layer?
Question 11
11.
Explain how the greenhouse effect works. Use the following terms: Solar radiation, reflection, and absorption.
Question 12
12.
What environmental changes are we experiencing due to the trend of glaciers melting?