Q3 Unit Assessment - Earth Strata/Human Effects

Using the article above, what type of fuel source is emitting the most greenhouse gasses?

• Natural Gas

• Coal

• Petroleum

• Nuclear

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In what way does stopping deforestation help decrease carbon dioxide emissions and help the earth?

• Trees help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, by using it to grow and produce oxygen, the trees become a “carbon sink”.

• It helps by increasing the amount of houses being built.

• Deforestation doesn’t affect carbon emissions as the emissions come from places outside the forests.

• Deforestation helps to grow crops like palm oil, these plants help stop the carbon.

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How are the oceans being affected by the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2)?

• There is no change in the ocean as water is neutral.

• The ocean is becoming more alkaline causing shellfish shells to become harder thus their predators cannot break the shells.

• The ocean is becoming more acidic and the shellfish may be unable to make shells.

• The ocean acidification is affecting the atmosphere by causing more hurricanes.

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What principle states that oldest rocks are found at the bottom of the Earth's rock strata?

• Principle of Superposition

• Principle of Stratigraphy

• Principle of Conservation of Mass

• Principle of Supermotion

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After watching the National Geographics movies, we found out that "Grey" strategies are a type of...

• Mitigation strategy

• Adaptation strategy

• Agitation strategy

• Migration strategy

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After watching the National Geographics movies, we found out that installing solar panels to decrease the amount of coal being used is an...

• Adaptation strategy

• Mitigation strategy

• Migration strategy

• Agitation strategy

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Which of the answers contributes the MOST to sea level rise according to the NOAA video?

• Ice caps

• Antarctic Ice Sheet

• Greenland Ice Sheet

• Thermal expansion

With a rise in CO2 emissions, we also see a rise in...

• Hurricane events

• Sea level rise

• Ice Melt

• All of the above

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Humans can cause natural disasters to occur or occur with more frequency.

• True

• False

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According to the population video that we watched in the Human Impact webquest, the world's population is projected to reach ___________ by the year 2100.

• 11 billion

• 23 million

• 300 million

• 20 billion

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