Physics 1.14: 4.2.1 Climate Change

Multiple Choice

What is the greenhouse effect?

• The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation.

• The heating of a solid, such as a rock.

• The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best conclusion that can be made from this graph?

• atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have been decreasing since 1960

• Hawaii has a lot of carbon dioxide

• humans have been working hard to decrease carbon dioxide levels

• atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased steadily since 1960

Multiple Select

Which of the following are natural factors that can change the climate?

• Wildfires

• Burning Fossil Fuels

• Earth's Tilt

• Deforestation

• Respiration

Multiple Choice

Which of the following have been changed or altered due to climate change ?

• droughts

• flooding

• melting of polar ice caps

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

All of the following are effects of Global Warming EXCEPT

• increase in hurricanes

• lower sea levels

• increase in disease

• melting polar ice caps

Multiple Choice

One serious consequence of climate change, a rise in sea levels, could result in ____________ of beaches.

• erosion

• increase in size

• increase in number

Multiple Choice

Possible human solutions for limiting global warming and climate change are...

• being more energy-efficient

• using renewable sources of energy

• removing carbon from fossil fuel emissions

• all of the above