Questions
1. What is the primary cause of climate change?
2. Which gas is considered the most significant greenhouse gas emitted by human activities?
3. What term describes the average weather conditions in a particular area over a long period?
4. Which of the following is a characteristic of a tropical climate?
5. In which region are temperate rainforests typically found?
6. What is the effect called when the Earth’s surface absorbs solar radiation and re-emits it as heat?
7. Which climatic zone is characterized by very low rainfall and extreme temperature variations between day and night?
8. What phenomenon is responsible for the periodic warming of ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific, impacting global weather patterns?
9. Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer, which protects the Earth from harmful UV radiation?
10. What is the primary consequence of deforestation on global climate?
Answers
1. Human activities
2. Carbon dioxide
3. Climate
4. Warm temperatures year-round
5. Coastal areas with warm ocean currents
6. The Greenhouse Effect
7. Arid
8. El Niño
9. Stratosphere
10. Altered rainfall patterns