CHAPTER 6 Test Yourself
Take this quiz to test your chapter knowledge.
1. True or false? A single year of record-
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2. True or false? Modern human emissions of CO2 are about equal to natural emissions from volcanoes.
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3. True or false? Most of Earth’s carbon is stored in the lithosphere.
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4. True or false? To stabilize CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, human carbon emissions must be cut by about 80% in the next few decades.
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5. True or false? Worldwide, most mountain glaciers are receding upslope in response to anthropogenic climate change.
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6. Multiple choice: During the last 800,000 years, natural atmospheric CO2 concentrations did not rise above
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7. Multiple choice: Today’s atmospheric CO2 concentration is about
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8. Multiple choice: Why are the oceans becoming more acidic?
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9. Fill in the blank: The ___________________ is a graph of measurements that show increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.
10. Fill in the blank: The study of ancient climate is called _________________________________.