Human Causes of Climate Change

Which of these are human causes of climate change?

• Milankovitch Cycles

• Pollution

• Sunspots

• Deforestation

Raising livestock and animals increases climate change because cattle produce lots of which gas?

How does deforestation increase climate change?

• Cutting down trees means we make more carbon dioxide

• Cutting down trees means there is less carbon being absorbed

• Cutting down trees means that cows get angry and make more gases

• Cutting down trees means that we have less paper

True or false? The greenhouse effect is when solar radiation is trapped in the atmosphere and warms the earth.

• True

• False

The greenhouse effect is increased by emissions of...

True or False: Climate on Earth never changes

• True

• False

Causes of Climate Change are

• only human activity

• a combination of natural and human forces

• only natural forces

A volcanic eruption on Earth causes the temperature to

• rise

• stay the same

• drop

Earth is currently experiencing

• a warming trend

• a period of unchanging climate

• a cooling trend

• an ice age

Is the Greenhouse Effect a completely bad thing?

• yes

• no