Human Activities & Global Climate Change

Which are greenhouse gases?

• carbon, helium, and oxygen

• water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane

• carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen

Some heat from the sun radiates back into space.

• True

• False

Greenhouse gases absorb radiation from the sun and

• trap it in the atmosphere

• reflect the heat back to space

• send the heat into the ocean only

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Greenhouse gases are like an ice bath for the Earth.

• True

• False

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Climate change can occur very quickly.

• True

• False

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Greenhouse gases absorb heat like a thermal blanket around the Earth.

• True

• False

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Fossil fuel

• includes coal

• includes oil

• is formed from the remains of living organisms

• All of the answers

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Which are evidence of climate change?

• fewer snails and spiders in the desert

• sea levels rising and rise of global temperature

• salty lakes and extreme weather

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Sea ice decreasing in size and the rise of sea levels is evidence of global warming.

• True

• False

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Ocean acidification occurs because

• the ocean is absorbing more carbon dioxide

• more sea animals are dying

• people go fish a lot

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