Climate Change Vocabulary Quiz

A unit of weight equal to one billion tons:

• Quintuple

• Gigaton

• Infrastructure

• Patchwork

Kitchen appliances that use electrical currents to heat cookware:

• Built Coasts

• Induction stoves

• Hydroelectric

• Acidification

Made worse or more serious:

• Pathway

• Exacerbated

• Curbing emissions

• Resilience

A level of exposure to something that is considered safe:

• Disinformation

• Safe threshold

• Net-zero

• Propaganda

Formally promised to do or give something:

• Assuage

• Reparations

• Overhaul

• Pledged

Electrical wires that carry power from one place to another:

• Pathway

• Transmission lines

• Safe threshold

• Inauguration

A state where the amount of greenhouse gases released equals the amount removed:

• Net-zero

• Hydroelectric

• Curbing emissions

• Pathway

False or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately to deceive:

• Misinformation

• Pathway

• Disinformation

• Safe threshold

Basic physical and organizational structures needed for a society or economy:

• Staples

• Transmission lines

• Infrastructure

• Patchwork

The formal ceremony of inducting a person into office:

• Overhaul

• Inauguration

• Transmission lines

• Patchwork