Global Warming Test Review

long-term change in the prevailing weather patterns

• climate change

• global warming

• fossil fuels

• greenhouse gases

• natural resources

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

a natural, non-renewable fuel such as coal, oil, or natural gas formed over a very long time in the geological past from the remains of living organisms

• climate change

• global warming

• fossil fuels

• greenhouse gases

• natural resources

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

continual rise in the average temperature of Earth's climate system

• climate change

• global warming

• fossil fuels

• greenhouse gases

• natural resources

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

Resources that exist in the environment without human intervention

• climate change

• global warming

• fossil fuels

• greenhouse gases

• natural resources

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range

• climate change

• global warming

• fossil fuels

• greenhouse gases

• natural resources

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

Due to _______________ global temperature, ice sheets are melting, which adds water globally and increases the sea level.

• increased

• decreased

• stable

• unusual

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

The number of record high temperatures in the United States has _______________.

• moved

• decreased

• increased

• declined

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

Human activity has added gases that have increased the _______________ in the atmosphere and have caused Earth's surface temperature to rise.

• carbon dioxide

• greenhouse effect

• carbon monoxide

• climate change

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

The main cause of air pollution is the _______________ of fossil fuels.

• dispersing

• breaking

• freezing

• burning

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-6

Choose the natural processes that have affected Earth’s climate.

Choose all that apply

• Changes in solar energy

• Dead trees and animals release carbon dioxide into the air

• Volcanoes

• People burning fossil fuels

• Deforestation

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS2-2