6.2 Climate change — causes and impacts Quiz
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1. Which is a positive feedback in the climate system?
- A. Higher CO2 leading to more photosynthesis
- B. Melting snow lowering albedo and increasing absorption
- C. More cloud reflecting sunlight
- D. Volcanic ash cooling the planet
2. Air bubbles in ice cores are used to measure
- A. past rainfall
- B. past atmospheric composition
- C. tree ring width
- D. soil acidity
3. Which statement about a positive correlation is correct?
- A. One variable rises as the other falls
- B. The variables tend to rise together
- C. It proves one variable causes the other
- D. There is no relationship
4. Why is the Netherlands better placed than Tuvalu to cope with sea-level rise?
- A. It is further from the sea
- B. It has more resources to build sea defences
- C. It has no storms
- D. It has more coral reefs
5. Which perspective most strongly argues that technology will solve climate change?
- A. Ecocentric
- B. Technocentric
- C. Deep ecology
- D. Subsistence