The Problem of Climate Change

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Climate is:

The state of the weather in the course of a week

The weather pattern in a particular territory over a period of many years

A feature of the weather specifying the frequency of precipitation

What old people remember about weather patterns, weather lore

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Where was the record set for the highest-ever air temperature on the planet (57.6 °C)?

The Dead Sea

The Namib Desert

The Sahara Desert

Death Valley

3 / 10

What does paleoclimatology study?

Climate in the future

Climate in the past

Mountain climates

Climate change that is happening today as a result of human activity

4 / 10

What is the climate of Barcelona?

Sub-tropical

Equatorial

Tropical

Temperate

5 / 10

Since the middle of the 19th century the air temperature on Earth

Rose sharply and then fell again

Has fallen

Has risen

Has not changed

6 / 10

Which of the following is a greenhouse gas?

Carbon monoxide (CO)

Oxygen (O₂)

Carbon dioxide (CO₂)

Nitrogen (N₂₎

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Which of these methods do scientists use to find out about the climate on Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago?

Study of meteorological data

Study of tree rings

Study of satellite images

Study of bubbles in Arctic ice

8 / 10

What impact do volcanic eruptions have on climate?

They cause temperatures to fall

They sometimes cause temperatures to rise and sometimes to fall

They do not have any impact

They cause temperatures to rise

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What is the name of the science that monitors, studies and forecasts the weather?

Hydrology

Climatology

Glaciology

Meteorology

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Where is climate warming happening the fastest?

In Southern Europe

In tropical latitudes

In the southern hemisphere

In the Arctic

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