Question 1

Global warming is shortening the growing season, decreasing the length of pollen seasons.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 2

Which of the following impacts on human health are caused by climate change's effect on water quality?

Accepted Answer

A)   Cholera and campylobacter
B)   Heart-related illness and death
C)   Forced migration and mental health impacts
D)   Malaria and Rift valley fever A

Question 3

________________ is the degree to which people or communities are affected, either adversely or beneficially, by a varying climate or other change.

Accepted Answer

A)   Exposure
B)   Sensitivity
C)   Adaptive capacity
D)   Vulnerability B

Question 4

Nearly all of the greenhouse gases that have accumulated in the atmosphere are from fossil fuels.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Which of the following was true about the average temperatures between 1950 and 1980?

Accepted Answer

A)   The cooler-than-average days were more frequent than the warmer-than-average days.
B)   The warmer-than-average days were more frequent than the cooler-than-average days.
C)   The average temperatures were stable and hovered around the same central number.
D)   The average temperatures decreased in comparison to the temperatures between 1920 and 1950.

Question 6

Which of the following is an example of subsidence?

Accepted Answer

A)   Expansion of oceans as a result of excess heat
B)   The sinking of land in some coastal areas
C)   The melting of the ice sheet in the Arctic over the North Pole
D)   Increasing sea levels as a result of higher tides

Question 7

Which of the following is true of carbon sinks?

Accepted Answer

A)   Carbon sinks are being created by the destruction of rain forests.
B)   The creation of more carbon sinks contributes to rising temperatures.
C)   As the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere rises, more is absorbed by natural systems.
D)   Carbon sinks have the capacity to isolate some of the atmospheric carbon.

Question 8

For every degree of higher temperature, the air can hold __________ more moisture.

Accepted Answer

A)   1-2%
B)   2-4%
C)   4-7%
D)   7-10%

Question 9

A majority of the atmosphere that surrounds earth is composed of:

Accepted Answer

A)   oxygen.
B)   carbon dioxide.
C)   nitrogen.
D)   water.

Question 10

Air is less dense and colder in the troposphere than in the stratosphere.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Which of the following is true of how the Sun's rays interact with the Earth?

Accepted Answer

A)   Most of the sunlight is absorbed by the atmosphere.
B)   Heat radiates inward from the warmed surface of the Earth.
C)   All of the infrared energy is absorbed by "greenhouse" gases.
D)   Some of the infrared energy is emitted into space.

Question 12

What cautionary statement is associated with an air quality of 201 to 300 ppb?

Accepted Answer

A)   No health impacts are expected.
B)   Unusually sensitive people should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
C)   Active children and adults should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
D)   Active children and adults should limit any outdoor exertion.

Question 13

Much of the carbon 14 in the carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has not degraded much so we can conclude that it was placed there recently.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

In 2018, a majority of carbon dioxide that entered the atmosphere in the United States came from energy burned:

Accepted Answer

A)   to power transportation.
B)   to power residential and commercial uses.
C)   to power industry.
D)   from agriculture fertilizer or the production of feed animals.

Question 15

The overall quantity of methane emissions is less than CO2 emissions, but has a greater effect than CO2.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 1: The Science Behind the Changing Climate

Global warming is shortening the growing season, decreasing the length of pollen seasons.

Which of the following impacts on human health are caused by climate change's effect on water quality?

________________ is the degree to which people or communities are affected, either adversely or beneficially, by a varying climate or other change.

Nearly all of the greenhouse gases that have accumulated in the atmosphere are from fossil fuels.

Which of the following was true about the average temperatures between 1950 and 1980?

Which of the following is an example of subsidence?

Which of the following is true of carbon sinks?

For every degree of higher temperature, the air can hold __________ more moisture.

A majority of the atmosphere that surrounds earth is composed of:

Air is less dense and colder in the troposphere than in the stratosphere.

Which of the following is true of how the Sun's rays interact with the Earth?

What cautionary statement is associated with an air quality of 201 to 300 ppb?

Much of the carbon 14 in the carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has not degraded much so we can conclude that it was placed there recently.

In 2018, a majority of carbon dioxide that entered the atmosphere in the United States came from energy burned:

The overall quantity of methane emissions is less than CO₂ emissions, but has a greater effect than CO₂.