Climate Change and Ice Melt

Read each statement carefully and determine if the statement is true (T) or false (F): Polar ice melt due to climate change is one explanation for why the sea level is rising.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

Read each statement carefully and determine if the statement is true (T) or false (F): Over the last million years, global temperatures seem to decrease around the same time that ice volumes decrease and sea levels increase.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-2

Read each statement carefully and determine if the statement is true (T) or false (F): The presence of carbon dioxide somehow enhances the rate of warming in a closed water bottle system, which we can use to model Earth’s atmosphere.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

Read each statement carefully and determine if the statement is true (T) or false (F): The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has increased rapidly over time.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

Read each statement carefully and determine if the statement is true (T) or false (F): The Ilulissat Glacier is the single largest flow of melt in Antarctica.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

Read each statement carefully and determine if the statement is true (T) or false (F): The front edge of the Ilulissat Glacier has been receding over many decades.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

Read each statement carefully and determine if the statement is true (T) or false (F): There are two proposed solutions to slow the melting of the Ilulissat Glacier: building a huge underwater barrier and spreading thin layers of microbeads on Arctic ice.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

NGSS.HS-ETS1-4

Different materials absorb and reflect light energy differently.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

More reflective materials, like fresh ice or snow, have a low albedo.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases transmit visible light, but absorb infrared light, trapping it in the Earth system.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS2-6