Climate Change

The two largest fuel sources are?

• wood and coal
• wood and natural gas
• oil and nuclear power
• coal and oil

Industrialization is a contributing factor to climate change.

• True
• False

Climate change causes extreme weather conditions such as:

• excessive heat
• drought
• extreme storms
• all of these

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Some of the Earth's most fragile ecosystems that could be greatly impacted by climate change live in the

• tropical rainforest
• tundra
• oceans
• African Sahara desert

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People in the world's forty-eight poorest countries have emitted what percentage of the total greenhouse gas emissions?

• 5
• 3
• 1
• 2

Increasingly severe weather systems such as monsoons or drought could lead to military conflicts.

• True
• False

Climate change can cause increases in asthma, allergies and heart disease.

• True
• False

Scientists predict that the hurricanes coming off the warming waters of the Gulf of Mexico will be less severe and less frequent.

• True
• False

What are greenhouse gases?

• gases that cause climate change
• gases that emit green smoke
• gases that are used to make green colored glass

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As a result of climate change food prices could 

• increase
• decrease
• stay the same