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Grade 12 Climate Change Worksheet with Answers
Grade 12 (US) · Year 13 (UK) · Class 12 (India) · Science
Unit 3: Earth & Human ActivityClimate ChangeNGSS HS-ESS3-5
The greenhouse effect, causes and evidence of climate change, and ways to reduce it. This free high school worksheet has 11 questions and a full answer key. Print it or save it as a PDF — every answer is checked by code, not guessed.
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Learning goal: Climate Change · NGSS HS-ESS3-5
Directions: Read each question carefully. Circle the correct choice or write your answer on the line.
RememberThe greenhouse effect
- 1
What is the difference between weather and climate?
- 2
Why are sea levels rising?
- 3
Why is the greenhouse effect needed for life?
- 4
Name one way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- 5
How does melting Arctic ice speed up warming?
- 6
How does cutting forests affect carbon dioxide levels?
- 7
Name a greenhouse gas.
- 8
Is global average temperature rising or falling?
RisingFalling - 9
What is the greenhouse effect?
- 10
What do ice cores tell scientists?
- 11
What human activity adds the most carbon dioxide to the air?
★ Challenge corner for fast finishers
Why does your breath make fog on a cold window?
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Answer key — Climate Change (Grade 12)
- 1.weather is day-to-day; climate is the long-term pattern
- 2.melting ice and warming water expanding
- 3.without it Earth would be too cold
- 4.renewable energy, efficiency or less driving (any one)
- 5.less white ice reflects sunlight, so more heat is absorbed
- 6.fewer trees absorb CO₂, so levels rise
- 7.carbon dioxide, methane or water vapor (any one)
- 8.rising
- 9.gases in the atmosphere trap heat near Earth's surface
- 10.past temperatures and gas levels in the atmosphere
- 11.burning fossil fuels
- ★water vapor in your breath condenses on the cold glass
Answer key (click to show)
- 1.weather is day-to-day; climate is the long-term pattern
- 2.melting ice and warming water expanding
- 3.without it Earth would be too cold
- 4.renewable energy, efficiency or less driving (any one)
- 5.less white ice reflects sunlight, so more heat is absorbed
- 6.fewer trees absorb CO₂, so levels rise
- 7.carbon dioxide, methane or water vapor (any one)
- 8.rising
- 9.gases in the atmosphere trap heat near Earth's surface
- 10.past temperatures and gas levels in the atmosphere
- 11.burning fossil fuels
- ★water vapor in your breath condenses on the cold glass (challenge corner)
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