Global Climate Change

1. True or False: Choose "True" if the statement is true or "False" if the statement is false to the following question.

Removal of the forests reduces the earths ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

True

False

2. Which is the primary greenhouse gas?

Nitrous Oxide

Carbon Dioxide

Methane

Halocarbon gases

3. Which of the following is NOT expected to be a future impact of climate change?

Sea level rise will flood coastal wetlands, real estate

Agriculture and forestry may have mixed results

Ecosystems will be altered; some will disappear

Freshwater will become more abundant

4. Which pollutant is involved when air pollution over cities interacts with sunlight, heat, oxygen, and other chemicals?

Nitric oxide

Nitrogen dioxide

Tropospheric ozone

All of the above

5.

One factor contributing to U.S. resistance to legal intervention regarding global climate change is ________.

Lack of scientific evidence supporting global climate change

Political influence of the petroleum and automobile industries

The success of voluntary reductions of carbon dioxide emissions by U.S. power plants

Lack of support from other developed nations around the world

The precautionary principle

6. True or False: Choose "True" if the statement is true or "False" if the statement is false to the following question.
Major volcanic eruptions and the aerosols they release contribute to short-term warming of the Earth's climate.

True

False

7. The National Academy of Science states the earth's temperature has risen how many degrees in the 20th century?

1 degree

2 degrees

10 degrees

20 degrees