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Climate Change and Environment Quiz
Twenty-five questions on greenhouse gases, the oceans, the treaties and the history of measurement — settled science and fixed facts rather than figures that change each year. Points scale with difficulty, and a clean sweep is 100.
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22 more questions in this quiz.1. Which greenhouse gas do human activities release in the greatest quantity?
- A. Oxygen
- B. Carbon dioxide
- C. Helium
- D. Neon
2. What in the stratosphere shields the surface from harmful ultraviolet light?
- A. The ozone layer
- B. The ionosphere
- C. The tropopause
- D. The Van Allen belts
3. What does the scientific community identify as the main cause of the rapid warming since the mid-twentieth century?
- A. Changes in the Earth's rotation
- B. The changing distance to the Moon
- C. Greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels
- D. More frequent volcanic eruptions