How things work college course/Global warming quiz 1

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The unshuffled version can serve as a pre-reading activity for the Wikipedia article, Global warming (permalink)

See Global warming quizzes for other quizzes devoted to this article. This quiz covers the lede.

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Global Warming quiz 1- Lede[edit | edit source]

  

1 The lede's graph of the "Global Land Ocean Temperature Index (1880-2013)" shows little or no temperature rise over the last ____ years

30
3
100
10
300

2 Since 1971, 90% of earth's increased energy caused by global warming has been stored in the _____________, mostly _____________

sea; in the top kilometer
sea; in the bottom kilometer
land; near the poles
land; near the equators
air; in the water vapor

3 The lede's graph of the "Global Land Ocean Temperature Index (1880-2013)" shows that since 1920, there has never been a decade of overall cooling

true
false

4 The largest temperature increases (from 2000-2009) have occurred

on the ocean surface
near the poles
near the equator
in the western hemisphere

5 The 2007 IPCC report stated that most global warming was likely being caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities. Among the science academies of the major industrialized nations, this finding was recognized by

90% of the academies of science
all of the academies of science
all but the US academy of science
60% of the academies of science

6 in 2013, the IPCC stated that the largest driver of global warming is carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion. Other important sources of CO2 are

population growth and waste disposal
cement production and waste disposal
cement production and land use changes
population growth

7 The lede's graphs of the "Global Land Ocean Temperature Index (1880-2013)" indicates that from 1960 to 2012 the average temperature increased by approximately

16° Celsius
0.6° Celsius
0.06° Celsius
0.16° Celsius
1.6° Celsius

8 Which statement is FALSE about the lede's map of the temperature anomaly (2000-2009)?

all portions of Antarctica have warmed
Northern Asia has warmed more than southern Asia
Central Europe has warmed more than the continental United States
The United States has warmed more than Australia

9 The lede's "CO2 Emissions per Year" graph (1990-2010) shows dips and rises that are caused by changes in

worldwide efforts to curtail emissions
the earth's distance from the sun
the sun's energy output
the world economy

10 The lede's "CO2 Emissions per Year" graph (1990-2010) shows solid straight lines that represent

estimates made in the year 2000 of what would happen in the future
estimates of the contributions from everything except fossil fuels
estimates of the contributions from fossil fuels alone
estimates of the impact on land temperatures

11 In climate science, mitigation refers to:

climate engineering
adaptation to the effects of global warming
reduction of green house emissions
building systems resilient to the effects of global warming

12 Anthropogenic means something that

humans can repair
human caused
humans cannot repair
will hurt humans