Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change Review

In Graph A, Atmosphereic CO2 Concentrations, what is the highest historical CO2 level recorded before 1950

• 180 ppm

• 220 ppm

• 300 pmm

• 380 ppm

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Define Global Warming

• Heat is trapped by greenhouse gases

• Increase in Earth's average temperature

• Significant long-term change in the expected patterns of average weather over time

• Layer of gas that shields Earth from UV light

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long-term change in the prevailing weather patterns

• climate change

• global warming

• fossil fuels

• greenhouse gases

• natural resources

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continual rise in the average temperature of Earth's climate system

• climate change

• global warming

• fossil fuels

• greenhouse gases

• natural resources

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gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range

• climate change

• global warming

• fossil fuels

• greenhouse gases

• natural resources

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Due to _______________ global temperature, ice sheets are melting, which adds water globally and increases the sea level.

• increased

• decreased

• stable

• unusual

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Human activity has added gases that have increased the _______________ in the atmosphere and have caused Earth's surface temperature to rise.

• carbon dioxide

• greenhouse effect

• carbon monoxide

• climate change

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Choose the natural processes that have affected Earth’s climate.

Choose all that apply

• Changes in solar energy

• Dead trees and animals release carbon dioxide into the air

• Volcanoes

• People burning fossil fuels

• Deforestation

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What can humans do to reduce the burning of fossil fuels? Choose all that apply.

• Take public transportation

• Use scrubbers on factories

• Stop exhaling

• Pick up litter

• Use wind or water power

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Human causes raise the temperature ______________ .

• gradually

• quickly

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