Climate and Climate Change
What sets Earth's climate, how it is changing, and what those changes cause.
9 questions, free, marked as you go with a worked explanation on every one.
What this covers
- greenhouse effect and climate change
The questions
- What is the greenhouse effect?
- Which human activities add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere? Select all that apply.
- Which is evidence that Earth's climate is warming?
- How can melting land ice affect people living near coasts?
- Which action by a community would most reduce its greenhouse gas emissions?
- Why do scientists study ice cores drilled from deep glaciers?
- A town recorded a mean summer temperature of 16.4 degrees Celsius in 1980. Since then the mean summer temperature has risen by about 0.03 degrees each year. Based on that trend, what mean summer temperature would you predict for 2020?
- Planting new forests and protecting existing ones is often listed as a way to slow climate change. Why does it help?
- Use the table. Which statement matches the pattern the data shows?