So you think you know about climate change

What is climate change?

• Don't know
• Change in global climate, such as an increase in the global temperature and major variations in precipitation patterns. 
• The earth has become sick. 
• A change in the earth's climate due to human causes. 

Industrialization is a contributing factor to climate change.

• True
• False

Global warming refers specifically to an increase in 

• the number of storms on Earth.
• precipitation from Earth’s atmosphere.
• temperatures everywhere on Earth.
• Earth’s average surface temperature.

The ____________________ is a natural process in which certain gases in the atmosphere trap heat near Earth and prevent it from radiating back into space.

• Greenhouse Zone
• Greenhouse Effect
• Tropic Layer
• Heat Zone

Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas?

• Carbon dioxide
• Methane
• Water vapour
• Nitrogen

The annual fluctuation in carbon dioxide concentration can best be explained by

• the use of fossil fuels

• volcanic activity

• deforestation

• seasonal photosynthesis

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

Changes in temperature are expected to be greatest

• near the equator
• near the poles
• between the equator and the North Pole
• between the equator and the South Pole

Carbon is stored in

• Trees and other living things
• Oceans
• underground in soil and fossil fuels
• All are correct

Global warming is due to 

• Greenhouse gases
• Nitric and sulfuric acids
• CFCs
• Ozone depletion