Climate Change Review

Industrialization is a contributing factor to climate change.

• True
• False

The two largest fuel sources are?

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

Climate change causes extreme weather conditions such as:

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

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

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

• 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

As a result of climate change food prices could 

• increase
• decrease
• stay the same

Where have some of the strongest and earliest impacts of global warming occurred?  

• in the tropics
• in the northern latitudes
• impacts of global warming are distributed equally all over the planet

If you took away the atmosphere’s natural greenhouse effect, and everything else stayed the same, Earth’s temperature would be   

• 10-20°F warmer
• 30-40°F warmer
• 10-20°F cooler
• 50-60°F cooler

Visible light reaches Earth’s surface while infrared light is trapped as heat. Which characteristic of Earth’s atmosphere causes this to happen?

• the hole in the ozone
• the greenhouse effect
• atmospheric pressure
• the inversion layer