D4.3 Climate Change
12 review questions with answers for D4.3 Climate Change, marked SL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Long-term changes in global temperatures and weather patterns?
- Greenhouse effect
- Greenhouse gas
- Climate changeRight answer
- Coral bleaching
All 12 questions and answers
Long-term changes in global temperatures and weather patterns?
Answer: Climate change
Increase in Earth's average surface temperature?
Answer: Global warming
The trapping of heat by specific gases in the atmosphere?
Answer: Greenhouse effect
Gases that absorb and emit infrared radiation (CO₂, CH₄, N₂O)?
Answer: Greenhouse gas
Potent greenhouse gas produced by livestock and wetlands?
Answer: Methane (CH₄)
A reservoir (like a forest or ocean) that absorbs more carbon than it releases?
Answer: Carbon sink
The decrease in ocean pH caused by the absorption of atmospheric CO₂?
Answer: Ocean acidification
Loss of symbiotic algae from coral due to heat stress?
Answer: Coral bleaching
Term for ground that is permanently frozen; releases CH₄ when it thaws?
Answer: Permafrost
The reflectivity of a surface (e.g., ice has a high value)?
Answer: Albedo
Term describing something caused or produced by human activity?
Answer: Anthropogenic
Actions taken to reduce or prevent greenhouse gas emissions?
Answer: Mitigation
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options are other answers from the same set.