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Climate Change Impacts

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Review climate change impacts through a series of questions addressing global warming, sea level rise, and shifting weather patterns. The set covers consequences on water resources, agriculture, and biodiversity. This topic frequently appears in the general awareness and environmental studies sections of major competitive exams.

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Climate Change Impacts Questions

Multiple choice zoology global environmental change causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

Multiple Choice Questions
Global warming can be controlled by

  1. Increasing deforestation, reducing efficiency of energy use

  2. Reducing deforestation, cutting down use of fossil fuel

  3. Reducing deforestation, increasing use of fossil fuel

  4. Increasing deforestation, slowing down the growth of human population.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of earth due to an excessive amount of greenhouse gases namely CO$ _2$, CH$ _4$ etc. It can be controlled by reducing deforestation. A high plant cover utilizes the major amount of CO$ _2$ from the air. Also another method of control is cutting down the use of fossil fuels which otherwise emits greenhouse gases like CO$ _2$, N$ _2$O etc.

So, the correct answer is option B, reducing deforestation, cutting down use of fossil fuel.

Multiple choice zoology global environmental change causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

Which of the following is caused by an increase in $\displaystyle { CO } _{ 2 }$ concentration in the atmosphere?

  1. Global warming

  2. Eutrophication of lakes

  3. Depletion of the ozone layer

  4. Magnification in the food chain

  5. Acid rain
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Global warming is caused by increased concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide is one of the greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere. Increased organic matter in lakes causes eutrophication. Ozone depletion is mainly related to the use of CFC-based products. Acid rain is the result of increased sulphur and nitrogen oxide levels in the atmosphere. Increased use of pesticides causing the death of predators will cause accumulation of nonbiodegradable compounds in the food chain. Thus, the correct answer is option A. 

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The global warming has resulted in :

  1. the increase in yield of crops

  2. the decrease in sea levels

  3. the decrease in human deaths

  4. the increase in sea levels
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The effects of an increase in global temperature include a rise in sea level rise (due to melting of snow and ice and because water above 3.98 C expands as it warms), widespread melting of snow and ice, increased heat content of the oceans, increased humidity, and the earlier timing of spring events.
Option D is correct.

Multiple choice physics energy production causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

What will be the effect of global warming at the poles?

  1. Decreasing of temperature

  2. Increasing of temperature

  3. constant of temperature

  4. none of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Due to global warming the temperature of earth's atmosphere in increasing, and the temperature at poles is also increasing. This increase in temperature at poles will melt the ice on poles , and will melt the glaciers and after some time the poles will be iceless. This will result in increase in the level of oceans which in turn may sink the coastal land areas.

Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

Which of the following is not a global warming effect?

  1. Decrease in spread of disease

  2. Widespread vanishing of animal populations

  3. Changes in rainfall patterns

  4. Rising Seas
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Global warming has certain changes in weather that inturns changes rainfall patterns that increases disease,so only option incorrect is decreament in deseases.

Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

Which of the following is the advantages of global warming?
A. Fewer deaths or injuries due to cold weather.
B. Longer growing seasons could mean increased agricultural production in some local areas.
C. Increased emigration of those from poorer or low-lying countries to wealthier or higher countries seeking better conditions.
D. Earlier drying of forests leading to increased forest fires in size and intensity.

  1. Only A and B

  2. Both B and C

  3. A, B and C

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
The advantages of global warming are;

  • The Arctic, Antarctic, Siberia, and other frozen regions of the earth might experience more plant growth and milder climates.
  • The next ice age could possibly be prevented.
  • The Northwest passage through the formerly icy Canadian Arctic Archipelago could arguably open up to transportation.
  • Fewer deaths or injuries would occur due to arctic conditions.
  • Longer growing seasons could mean increased agricultural production in some areas.
  • Previously untapped oil and gas reserves might become available.

The migration of people derived from global warming will undoubtedly facilitate the migration of these pathogens, directly influencing public health and the economy (costs in prevention, control and treatment) and will have a negative impact on the world population. Also, increases in average annual temperatures create conditions that dramatically elevate the risk and severity of forest fires.
Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

Global warming 

  1. has same effect throughout the world

  2. effects varies in different regions

  3. increase with the increasing in pressure

  4. none of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The world average temperature is rising due to the greenhouse effect caused by increasing levels of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide. When the global temperature changes, the changes in climate are not expected to be uniform across the Earth. In particular, land areas change more quickly than oceans, and northern high latitudes change more quickly than the tropics, and the margins of boime regions change faster than do their cores.

Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

Which of the following is/are the advantages of global warming?

  1. Arctic, Antarctic, Siberia, and other frozen regions of earth may experience more plant growth and milder climates.

  2. The next ice age may be prevented from occurring.

  3. Less need for energy consumption to warm cold places.

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The advantages of global warming are;

  • The Arctic, Antarctic, Siberia, and other frozen regions of the earth might experience more plant growth and milder climates.
  • The next ice age could possibly be prevented.
  • The Northwest passage through the formerly icy Canadian Arctic Archipelago could arguably open up to transportation.
  • Fewer deaths or injuries would occur due to arctic conditions.
  • Longer growing seasons could mean increased agricultural production in some areas.
  • Previously untapped oil and gas reserves might become available.

Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

Which of the following is the effect of global warming?

  1. The effect on agriculture

  2. Climate changing effect human too

  3. The green-house effect

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Global heating will effect on type of crops and its various natural features.Moreover humans will feel the extra heat and also the deplete of ozone gas.

Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

Which of the following effect is due to global warming?

  1. Water shortages in already water-scarce areas.

  2. Increased deaths from heat waves.

  3. Extinction of additional species of animals and plants.

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The effects of global warming or climate damage include far-reaching and long-lasting changes to the natural environment, to ecosystems and human societies caused directly or indirectly by human emissions of greenhouse gases. It also includes the economic and social changes which stem from living in a warmer world. Global warming stresses ecosystems through water shortages in already water-scare areas. increased deaths from heat waves, extension of additional species of animals and plants etc.

Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

The global warming has resulted in

  1. the increase in yield of crops

  2. the decrease in sea levels

  3. the decrease in human deaths

  4. the increase in sea levels
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Two major mechanisms are causing sea level to rise.
First, shrinking land ice, such as mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets, is releasing water into the oceans.
Second, as ocean temperatures rise, the warmer water expands. 
The warming of the atmosphere caused by increases in greenhouse gases is melting glaciers and causing ocean water to warm and expand thermally. Both effects increase the volume of the ocean, raising its surface level.
Thus Option D is correct.

Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

How will global warming effect the sea level.

  1. rise

  2. climate change

  3. effect on whether

  4. none of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

    Due to global warming the temperature of earth's atmosphere in increasing , and the temperature at poles and high mountains is also increasing . This increase in temperature will melt the ice on poles and peaks of mountain and will melt the glaciers . This will result in rise in the level of sea .

Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

Which of the following is/are correct regarding global warming?

  1. Ozone becomes harmful

  2. Economic consequences

  3. Increasing temperature

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Due to global heating temperature of the atmosphere increases,which inturns requires its controlling measures that consequently involves new technologies and hence becomes a burden in terms of money.

Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

Which of the following is true regarding future effects of global warming?
A. Hurricanes will get worse and hurricanes like katrina will be common on the coastal area.
B. In the next century the sea level is predicted to rise between $9$ and $88$ cm.
C. The global temperature would increase by $2.5$ to $10$ degrees F.

  1. Only A

  2. Only B

  3. Only A and B

  4. All A , B and C
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A hurricane is a large rotating storm with high speed winds that forms over warm waters in tropical areas. According to 2006 studies by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the strongest hurricanes in the present climate may be upstaged by even more intense hurricanes over the next century as the Earth's climate is warmed by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Hurricanes will get worse and hurricanes like katrina will be common on the coastal area. It is predicted that the global temperature would increase by $2.5^0F$ to $10^0F$. 

Earth’s warming climate is causing sea levels to rise in two different ways. First, warmer air temperatures are causing glaciers and land ice to melt. As the melt water flows into the ocean, the increase in the total amount of water causes the sea level to rise. Second, as ocean water warms, it expands—pushing water farther up along our shores and resulting in physical changes to ocean heat and temperature. In the next century the sea level is predicted to rise between $9\,cm$ to $88\,cm$.