What is climate change?
Climate change is change in short term weather patterns
Climate change is lasting change in long term weather patterns over a significant period of time
Climate change is change in long term weather patterns over ten years
Which of the following is human evidence of climate change?
Weather recordings
Analysis of pollen and trees
Ice cover
Which of the following is NOT a greenhouse gas?
Carbon dioxide
Methane
Oxygen
The burning of fossil fuels releases which greenhouse gas?
Carbon Dioxide
Nitrous oxide
Which of the following has NOT been a source of CFCs?
Fridges
Air conditioning
Car exhausts
Which of the following is a PHYSICAL cause of climate change?
Traffic pollution
Milankovitch cycles or variations in the tilt and/or orbit of the earth around the sun
Atom bomb testing
Which of the following is a HUMAN cause of climate change?
The burning of fossil fuels
Volcanic eruptions
Variations in solar energy