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Climate Change Quiz
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1. How much did average global
temperatures rise over the 20th century?
A. 2.0 degrees
B. 1.5 degrees
C. 1.0 degrees
D. .5 degrees
2. Which country is the world leader in
emitting the most greenhouse gases?
A. The United Kingdom
B. India
C. The United States
D. China
3. What approximate percentage of CO2
emissions is caused by cutting down forests?
A. 10-15 percent
B. 15-20 percent
C. 20-25 percent
D. 25-30 percent
4. How many times can you recycle
aluminum?
A. 2 times
B. 5 times
C. 25 times
D. Forever
5. Climate change is having a negative
impact on which of the following natural phenomena?
A. Coral bleaching
B. Hurricanes
C. Drought
D. All of the above
6. How many human deaths per year does
the World Health Organizations attribute to climate change?
A. 1,500
B. 15,000
C. 150,000
D. 1,500,000
7. Scientists project that climate
change will increase the spread of which of the following
diseases?
A. Lyme disease
B. Malaria
C. West Nile Virus
D. All of the above
8. The Arctic Ocean could possibly be ice
free in the summer by what year?
A. 2008
B. 2025
C. 2050
D. 2100
9. How long does it take for carbon
dioxide to disperse in the atmosphere?
A. 1 year
B. 25 years
C. 50 years
D. 100 years
10. How many species of plants and
animals could be driven to extinction by the year 2050?
A. 5,000
B. 25,000
C. 100,000
D. 1 million
Sources:
The Earth Institute and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2001
“Planet in Peril,” 2007, Television
Documentary on CNN, and the International Energy Agency
The Nature Conservancy
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore, 2006 and
the Nature Conservancy
The World Health Organization
The Nature Conservancy
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, 2004,
and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (as quoted on ABC
News website, “Arctic’s First Ice-Free Summer Possible Even
This Year,” by Bill Blakemore and Tuan C. Nguyen, June 27,
2008,
http://abcnews.go.com)
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy, and as quoted in
Time Magazine, “Feeling the Heat,” by David Bjerklie, March
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