Quiz - AP Climate Change

Climate models predict that global warming will be most severe in which regions?

• Australia

• North America

• Polar Regions

• Africa

• Euro-Asia

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All of the following are greenhouse gases EXCEPT

• carbon dioxide

• water vaopr

• methane

• nitrogen

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If global temperature warmed for any reason, atmospheric water vapor would increase due to evaporation. This would increase the greenhouse effect and thereby further rise the temperature. As a result, the ice caps would melt back, making the planet less reflective so that it would warm further. This process is an example of

• synergistic feedback

• positive-feedback loop

• negative-feedback loop

• negative coupling

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Which of the following statements about the greenhouse effect is false?

• The amount of heat trapped in the troposphere depends on concentrations of greenhouse gases.

• Changes in CO₂ and methane levels correlate closely with changes in global average temperature.

• Life on earth is totally dependent on the natural greenhouse effect

• The greenhouse effect is a new theory that explains the warming of the atmosphere.

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Which of the following is not a human activity responsible for adding CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O to the atmosphere?

• combustion of fossil fuels

• cultural eutrophication

• deforestation

• combustion of petroleum

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Which of the following is NOT correct?

• Increased glacial melting leads to decreased albedo.

• Decrease in cloud albedo leads to increased atmospheric temperature.

• Decreased atmospheric H₂O leads to an increased greenhouse effect.

• Increased surface temperature leads to increased evaporation.

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The thawing of permafrost will most likely result in

• additional water vapor in the atmosphere

• less water vapor in the atmosphere

• additional nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere

• additional sulfur oxides in the atmosphere

• additional methane in the atmosphere

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One result of increased troposphere temperatures that are observed today is

• An increase in skin cancers in people

• And increase in the average global sea levels of 10 to 20 cm

• More radon seepage into people’s homes

• A deeper permafrost in Artic regions

• Lakes and ponds remaining frozen longer into the spring

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1. The increase in CO2 in the atmosphere coincides with the start of the ________________ and correlates to an increase of ____________ within the atmosphere.

I. Industrial Revolution

II. Ozone

III. Green Revolution

IV. Temperature

V. Water Vapor

• I and II

• I and IV

• I and V

• III and II

• III and IV

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Increased combustion of fossil fuels since 1750 has contributed to all of the following EXCEPT

• melting permafrost

• ocean acidification

• decreased ozone layer

• ocean thermal expansion

• coastal flooding

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