The Ocean and Climate Change Test Review

What is climate?

• Long term shifts in weather patterns
• Short term shifts in weather patterns

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

When did Earth's climate start changing due to human activities?

• 1700's
• 1800's
• 1900's
• 2000's

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

How much of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans?

• 90%
• 80%
• 70%
• 60%
• 50%

What happens when carbon dioxide combines with the hydrogen in the ocean water?

• Turns to Sulfuric acid
• Turns to Carbonic acid
• Turns to salt
• Nothing happens

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-4

What does ocean acidification mean?

• The ocean's pH gets lower (more acidic)
• The oceans pH gets higher (more basic)
• The ocean's pH doesn't change but it gets more salty
• The oceans pH doesn't change but it gets less salty

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

Which absorbs more heat?

• The oceans
• The glacers
• The deserts
• The mountains

The movement of ___________ energy regulates the climate.

• thermal
• potential
• kinetic
• electric

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4