Climate Change

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What is climate?

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The average weather of a specific area.

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What is the main gas responsible for causing global warming?

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Carbon Dioxide

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What is the main human activity that releases greenhouse gases?

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burning fossil fuels

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What is the greenhouse effect?

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The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation.

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What do scientists think the effect will be of having more greenhouse gases in our atmosphere?

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More warming of the atmosphere

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Water vapor is a greenhouse gas. True or False?

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true

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Some greenhouse gases are naturally present in the Earth's atmosphere (T/F)

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True

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Increased carbon dioxide may cause global warming by trapping more ____________ in the atmosphere.

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heat

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Which of the following have been linked to climate change?
- droughts
- melting of polar ice caps
- flooding
- all of the above

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all of the above

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What happens to the temperature if more greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere?

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Temperature goes up