Unit 2 Global climate: Consequences and responses
14 revision questions with answers for Unit 2 Global climate: Consequences and responses, marked SL and HL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Sea-level rise caused by seawater occupying more volume as it warms?
- Thermal expansionRight answer
- Isostatic rebound
- Ice-sheet melt
- Storm surge
What this set covers
Responses to a warming climate run through this set: thermal expansion, ocean acidification, mitigation, adaptation, carbon capture and storage, cap and trade, offsetting, the Paris Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol.
- Common mix-up
- Students often swap mitigation and adaptation: mitigation cuts emissions or boosts sinks, while adaptation, such as sea walls or drought-resistant crops, adjusts to impacts that are already happening.
- Revision tip
- Sort every response in the set into mitigation or adaptation, then explain from memory how vulnerability and resilience describe the same community from opposite sides.
All 14 questions and answers
Sea-level rise caused by seawater occupying more volume as it warms?
Answer: Thermal expansion
Response that cuts greenhouse gas emissions or enhances carbon sinks?
Answer: Mitigation
Response that adjusts to climate impacts, e.g. sea walls or drought-resistant crops?
Answer: Adaptation
Removing CO₂ from power-station flue gases and burying it in rock formations?
Answer: Carbon capture and storage
Scheme that sets an emissions limit and lets firms buy and sell permits?
Answer: Cap and trade
Paying for emission cuts elsewhere, e.g. tree planting, to compensate for one's own?
Answer: Carbon offsetting
Total greenhouse gas emissions caused by a person, product or organisation, in CO₂ equivalent?
Answer: Carbon footprint
2015 UN climate deal to keep warming well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels?
Answer: Paris Agreement
1997 treaty setting binding emission targets for developed countries only?
Answer: Kyoto Protocol
UN body that reviews climate science and publishes regular assessment reports?
Answer: IPCC
Deliberate large-scale intervention in Earth's climate, e.g. reflecting sunlight with stratospheric aerosols?
Answer: Geo-engineering
Exposure, sensitivity and lack of adaptive capacity together make up a community's…?
Answer: Vulnerability
Ability of a community to absorb a shock and recover quickly?
Answer: Resilience
Fall in seawater pH as more atmospheric CO₂ dissolves in it?
Answer: Ocean acidification
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options were written for that question.