Climate Change Quiz

Once you've explored the EPA Climate Change website, come back to test your knowledge about climate change science and impacts.

  • Climate Change Indicators: Learn more about observed changes in the environment, society, and ecosystems.
  • Climate Change Science: Learn about the science of climate change with information on climate change basics and causes.
  • Climate Change Impacts: Explore information on climate change impacts to communities, ecosystems, and industries in the United States.

Learning and sharing accurate information about climate change is an important way to help address it.

1. Which of the following kinds of data do scientists uses to understand how the climate is changing?
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2. Which of the following are examples of climate change impacts?
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3. How can the changing climate affect human health?
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4. Which term refers to a change in Earth’s energy balance which leads to a warming or cooling effect over time?
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5. Climate change is making heat waves more frequent, more intense, and longer. What factors can make people more vulnerable to heat-related illness and death?
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6. When the ocean absorbs additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, this increases the acidity of seawater in a process known as ocean acidification. This change concerns scientists because it:
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7. What term means taking action to prepare for and adjust to current and future impacts of climate change?
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8. Which of the following actions can people take to help lessen the impacts of climate change?
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Last updated on January 6, 2025