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1. Correct Answer: 1

degree C

33. About how much has the

temperature of the Northern

hemisphere varied over the past

thousand years?

2. Correct Answer: 1

degree C

37. About how much warmer is the

Earth now than it would be naturally?

3. Correct Answer: 2-4

deg. C

3. Temperature changes predicted for

the year 2100

4. Correct Answer: 3

degrees C

16. About how much warmer will the

Earth be in the year 2100, projected

business as usual, middle-of-the-road

estimate?

5. Correct Answer: 5-6

deg. C

26. Temperature changes through the

ice ages

6. Correct Answer: 5

degrees C

7. About how much has the

temperature of the Earth varied

through the glacial/interglacial cycles?

7. Correct Answer:

about 1 deg. C

35. Temperatures today above normal\:

8. Correct Answer:

about 1 deg. C

4. Temperature changes through the

last thousand years

9. Correct Answer: a

factor of two

25. The atmospheric methane

concentration in the atmosphere has

increased due to human activity by

about

10. Correct Answer: an

amplifier

34. The carbon cycle through the ice

ages was ___ of orbit-induced climate

change.11. Correct Answer:

changes in the

Earth's orbit

around the sun

12. The Last Glacial Maximum was

driven by

12. Correct Answer:

changes in the

intrinsic intensity

of the sun

36. The Little Ice Age was driven by

13. Correct Answer:

Coal

1. Which is most oxidized?

14. Correct Answer:coal

40. Which fossil fuel is the least reduced

15. Correct Answer:

coal

21. Which one will mainly determine

whether the earth cooks or not

16. Correct Answer:

coal

30. Which is mainly used for electricity

17. Correct Answer:

coal

32. Which is cheap est?

18. Correct Answer:

coal

22. Which is derived from fossil peat

19. Correct Answer: coal 6. Which is the most abundant?

20. Correct Answer: coal 5. Which of these is the dominant

source of acid rain?

21. Correct Answer: fresh-

water swamp

24. The b est coal comes from

22. Correct Answer: fresh-water swamps

42. Natural gas comes from

23. Correct Answer: gas 28. Which has the most energy per

carbon

24. Correct Answer: gas 13. Which produces the least

amount of carbon per Joule of 

energy?

25. Correct Answer: natural

gas

41. Which contains the most

energy per carbon

26. Correct Answer: ocean

plankton

14. Oil comes from

27. Correct Answer: Oil 2. Which of these is Hubbert's

Peak usually applied to?

28. Correct Answer: oil 10. Which is most useful for

transportation?

29. Correct Answer: oil 31. Which is the most likely to be in

short supply soonest

30. Correct Answer: oil 20. Which comes in long chains of 

carbon?

31. Correct Answer: one or

a few decades

29. The "smoking gun" for a

human impact on climate comes

from temperature variations overthe past ...

32. Correct Answer: one or

a few years

11. The lifetime of methane in the

atmosphere is

33. Correct Answer: one

year

38. Choose the approximate time

scale for CH4 oxidation in the

atmosphere

34. Correct Answer: rice

farming

27. Changes in atmospheric

methane concentration h ave

been mostly due to

35. Correct Answer: source 15. Methane concentrations have

risen because of change in its

36. Correct Answer: ten

thousand years or

longer

8. The lifetime of methane in dark

air with O2 is

37. Correct Answer: ten

years

9. Choose the appropriate time

scale for the sunspot cycle

38. Correct Answer: the

rate at which methane

is released to the

atmosphere

18. The increase in atmospheric

methane is primarily due to

changes in

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39. Correct Answer: thermometers over the last 50

years.

23. The best evidence for a human impact on climate comes from

40. Correct Answer: the thermometer temperature

record

43. The smoking gun for a human impact on the climate of Earth is

41. Correct Answer: they are all roughly the same 44. Which is responsible for the most C emissions overall today

42. Correct Answer: they are all roughly the same 39. Which is responsible for most C emissions overall today

43.

Correct Answer: True 19. Ice core records show that atmospheric CO2 can have an impact on globaltemperature

44. Correct Answer: True 17. Ice core records show that global temperature can have an impact on

atmospheric CO2.