Tundra and Permafrost NSS
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Science
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7th - 12th Grade
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Hard
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Andrew Hogan
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16 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Some ___ million square miles of permafrost — ___ percent of the world’s total — could disappear by the end of the century.
2.5/40
1/25
3.5/50
0.5/10
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS3-4
NGSS.MS-ESS3-5
2.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following can affect a resident of Utqiagvik, AK as permafrost continues to melt?
landslides and slumping at alarming rates
stream flows changing
lakes suddenly draining
seashores collapsing
water chemistry being altered
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS2-2
NGSS.HS-ESS2-5
NGSS.HS-ESS3-1
NGSS.HS-ESS3-5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Climate warming will result in hydrological changes this century that will dry up 15,000 of the 45,000 ______ in the Mackenzie River Delta, one of the largest deltas in the world.
Lakes
Rivers
Ponds
Square Miles
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS2-2
NGSS.HS-ESS2-5
NGSS.HS-ESS3-5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An estimated _____ gigatons of carbon are frozen in Arctic permafrost, making it one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.
1,400
1,500
1,000
100
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS2-6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What do we call what is happening in this video (the ground appears to be slowly draining away)
Slumping
Mud Flow
River Drainage
Catastrophe
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
According to a recent report, a ____-degrees Fahrenheit ( 2 degrees Celsius) increase in temperature — expected by the end of the century — will result in a loss of about 40 percent of the world’s permafrost by _______.
3.6/2100
3.0/2024
2.6/2099
3.6/2099
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS3-5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Toxic petroleum waste that was supposed to be permanently contained in 200 frozen pits in the Mackenzie Delta, for example, is migrating into nearby ___________ ____________.
freshwater ecosystems
tundra biomes
ocean ecosystems
land fills
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS3-3
NGSS.MS-LS2-4
NGSS.MS-LS2-5
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