Erasmus Prep- Climate Change

True or false: The 10 warmest years in the historical record have all occurred since 2010. 

• True

• False

What is the principal (main) cause of climate change?

• Animals

• Human activity

• Trees

Who is this climate activist?

• Malala Yousafzai

• Vanessa Nakate

• Greta Thunburg

True or false: In the past 100 years, the global average temperature has risen by about 0.74 degrees celsius.  

• True

• False

True or false: Changing rainfall patterns and the melting of glaciers will jeopardize water supplies to hundreds of millions of people.

• True

• False

True or false: Natural disasters cannot be related to climate change.

• True

• False

Which statement is true?

• In 2009, there were 351 natural disasters and 10 of these were climate‐related.  

• In 2009, climate-related natural disasters killed 8,700 people.

Choose the correct definition of "climate emergency"

• long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.

  
  

• a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it.
  

There was more carbon dioxide in the air 100 years ago than there is now.

• True

• False

Humans have already caused 1.1 degrees Celsius of warming

• True

• False