CHP 14 QUIZ 6

In the rush to ______________, little effort had been made to store toxic wastes properly.

• Automate

• Decentralize

• Consolidate

• Industrialize

Russian forests shrink by almost______________ acres each year—a rate of loss higher than that of the Amazon Basin

• 10 million

• 40 million

• 20 million

• 30 million

The warming is likely to produce an unprecedented thawing of the world’s largest peat bog that would release into the atmosphere billions of metric tons of ______________, a powerful greenhouse gas.

• Carbon dioxide

• Nitrogen

• Methane

• Oxygen

n September 2012, a British parliamentary committee called for a halt to drilling in the Arctic Ocean until necessary steps are taken to protect the region from the potentially catastrophic consequences of an______________

• Oil Spill

• Earthquake

• Tsunami

• Volcano

The widespread effects of global warming are becoming visible in western ______________because climate change more readily affects temperatures at higher northern latitudes.

• Canada

• India

• Siberia

• Australia