The Next Ice Age
Do you know anything about why ice ages occurs, glaciers and global warming? Test your skills. Too hard? Read the story: The next ice age.
- 1.What is an interglacial?
- A.
The colder part of an ice age
- B.
The warmer part of an ice age
- C.
A glacier
- 2.What is the milankovic theory?
- A.
A theory saying that the changes in the earth's movement could be the reason to why glacial and interglacials occur
- B.
A theory saying that is is because of the formation of mountains that ice ages occur.
- C.
A theory saing that the fact that the poles has been moved explains why there are traces of ice all around the world.
- 3.What does not happen at the beginning of an ice age
- A.
The summers become shorter
- B.
The snow will not melt away during the winter
- C.
The winters become shorter
- D.
The glaciers will grow
- 4.What is the definition of a glacier?
- A.
Lots of ice
- B.
A cold place
- C.
A mass of snow and ice which will move because of its own weight
- 5.What are happening to most of the worlds glaciers?
- A.
They are melting
- B.
They are growing
- C.
Nothing
- 6.What effect does the Gulf Stream have on the climate in Scandinavia.
- A.
No efffect
- B.
It makes it colder
- C.
It makes it warmer
- 7.Which of the following gases is a greenhouse gas?
- A.
Carbon dioxide
- B.
Oxygen gas
- 8.What does it mean that ice ages have an periodicity of 300 million years?
- A.
That a new one will occur every 300 million years
- B.
That there will be 10 ice ages in 300 million years
- C.
That there will be 300 million years in between every ice age
- 9.How will the climate be in Scandinavia 100 years from now?
- A.
It will be warmer
- B.
It will be colder
- C.
We can't be sure how the climate will be like
- D.
It will be the same
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