Tundra and Permafrost NSS

Tundra and Permafrost NSS

7th - 12th Grade

16 Qs

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Tundra and Permafrost NSS

Tundra and Permafrost NSS

Assessment

Quiz

Science

7th - 12th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-ESS2-2, MS-ESS3-5, HS-ESS2-2

+9

Standards-aligned

Created by

Andrew Hogan

Used 2+ times

FREE Resource

16 questions

Show all answers

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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