{
  "id": "b63db430-8268-505e-a311-6d0e8b9840fc",
  "slug": "unit-2-global-climate-causes-of-climate-change",
  "title": "Unit 2 Global climate: Causes of climate change",
  "course": "IB Geography",
  "level": "SL and HL",
  "topic": "U2",
  "questionCount": 14,
  "page": "https://splycr.com/ib-geography/unit-2-global-climate-causes-of-climate-change",
  "data": "https://splycr.com/library/unit-2-global-climate-causes-of-climate-change.json",
  "play": "https://splycr.com/?set=b63db430-8268-505e-a311-6d0e8b9840fc",
  "section": {
    "name": "Unit 2: Global climate—vulnerability and resilience",
    "page": "https://splycr.com/ib-geography/global-climate-vulnerability-and-resilience"
  },
  "source": {
    "name": "Biology by Bradford",
    "href": "https://www.biologybybradford.com",
    "note": "Written for the splycr library by Biology by Bradford."
  },
  "questions": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "question": "Proportion of incoming solar radiation reflected by a surface?",
      "answer": "Albedo",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Insolation",
        "Emissivity",
        "Radiative forcing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "question": "Incoming short-wave energy from the Sun reaching the Earth?",
      "answer": "Insolation",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Albedo",
        "Terrestrial radiation",
        "Latent heat"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "question": "Long-wave energy emitted by the Earth's surface and atmosphere?",
      "answer": "Terrestrial radiation",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Insolation",
        "Short-wave radiation",
        "Latent heat"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 4,
      "question": "Natural warming as atmospheric gases absorb and re-emit outgoing long-wave radiation?",
      "answer": "Greenhouse effect",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Enhanced greenhouse effect",
        "Global dimming",
        "Urban heat island"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 5,
      "question": "Extra warming as human emissions raise concentrations of heat-trapping gases?",
      "answer": "Enhanced greenhouse effect",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Natural greenhouse effect",
        "Global dimming",
        "Ozone depletion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 6,
      "question": "Reduction in sunlight reaching the surface caused by aerosols and particulates?",
      "answer": "Global dimming",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Ozone depletion",
        "Acid deposition",
        "Enhanced greenhouse effect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 7,
      "question": "Melting ice exposes darker surfaces that absorb more heat and melt more ice: an example of…?",
      "answer": "Positive feedback",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Negative feedback",
        "Dynamic equilibrium",
        "Global dimming"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 8,
      "question": "Change that counteracts a disturbance, returning a system towards equilibrium?",
      "answer": "Negative feedback",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Positive feedback",
        "Tipping point",
        "Radiative forcing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 9,
      "question": "Threshold beyond which a system shifts, often irreversibly, into a new state?",
      "answer": "Tipping point",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Equilibrium",
        "Feedback loop",
        "Carrying capacity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 10,
      "question": "Ground below 0 °C for years, whose thawing releases stored CH₄ and CO₂?",
      "answer": "Permafrost",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Tundra",
        "Active layer",
        "Ice sheet"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 11,
      "question": "Gas that makes the largest contribution to the natural greenhouse effect?",
      "answer": "Water vapour",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Carbon dioxide",
        "Methane",
        "Nitrous oxide"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 12,
      "question": "Flooded fields of this crop are a major farming source of methane?",
      "answer": "Rice",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Wheat",
        "Maize",
        "Soya"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 13,
      "question": "Store such as an ocean or forest that absorbs more CO₂ than it releases?",
      "answer": "Carbon sink",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Carbon source",
        "Carbon flux",
        "Carbon budget"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 14,
      "question": "Volcanic eruptions cool global climate briefly, mainly by injecting these into the stratosphere?",
      "answer": "Sulfate aerosols",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Ash particles",
        "Carbon dioxide",
        "Water vapour"
      ]
    }
  ]
}