9 questions
Which one of the following describes climate change?
The weather getting hotter within the UK.
Is the overall warming of the planet, based on the average temperature of the entire Earth’s surface.
Refers to changes in climate characteristics, including temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind and severe weather events over long time periods.
Winters in the UK getting milder and wetter.
Which one of the following describes global warming?
Refers to changes in climate characteristics, including temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind and severe weather events over long time periods.
The UK getting warmer
The UK's winter getting milder and wetter
Is the overall warming of the planet, based on the average temperature of the entire Earth’s surface.
What does this climate change image show?
How rainfall has increased from the start of records until the present day.
How weather has changed from when records began until now.
The colour of each stripe represents the temperature of a single year, ordered from the earliest available data at each location to now.
How Earth is getting cooler over time.
What does this climate change graph show?
How rainfall has increased from the start of records until the present day.
How weather has changed from when records began until now.
How the Earth's temperature has changed from the year 1000 to 2000.
How Earth is getting cooler over time.
On the diagram, which letter is showing the enhanced greenhouse effect?
A
B
C
Which one of the following is not a greenhouse gas?
Carbon dioxide
Oxygen
Methane
Water vapour
Which country emits the most greenhouse gas emissions?
USA
China
India
EU
Which of the following best describes the enhanced greenhouse effect?
Humans adding to the greenhouse gas layer resulting in the trapping of reflected heat.
The natural greenhouse gas layer in the Earth's atmosphere.
Pollution in the Earth's atmosphere.
Which of the following is not a cause of climate change?
Deforestation.
Burning of fossil fuels in power stations.
Livestock and rice paddy fields.
The hole in the ozone layer.