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Grade 6 Climate Change Worksheet with Answers
Grade 6 (US) · Year 7 (UK) · Class 6 (India) · Science
Unit 4: Weather & ClimateClimate ChangeNGSS MS-ESS3-5
The greenhouse effect, causes and evidence of climate change, and ways to reduce it. This free middle 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 MS-ESS3-5
Directions: Read each question carefully. Circle the correct choice or write your answer on the line.
RememberThe greenhouse effect
- 1
What do ice cores tell scientists?
- 2
Why is the greenhouse effect needed for life?
- 3
What is the difference between weather and climate?
- 4
What is the greenhouse effect?
- 5
Name one way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- 6
How does cutting forests affect carbon dioxide levels?
- 7
Why are sea levels rising?
- 8
Is global average temperature rising or falling?
RisingFalling - 9
What human activity adds the most carbon dioxide to the air?
- 10
Name a greenhouse gas.
- 11
How does melting Arctic ice speed up warming?
★ Challenge corner for fast finishers
Why does a spinning ice skater spin faster when she pulls her arms in?
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Answer key — Climate Change (Grade 6)
- 1.past temperatures and gas levels in the atmosphere
- 2.without it Earth would be too cold
- 3.weather is day-to-day; climate is the long-term pattern
- 4.gases in the atmosphere trap heat near Earth's surface
- 5.renewable energy, efficiency or less driving (any one)
- 6.fewer trees absorb CO₂, so levels rise
- 7.melting ice and warming water expanding
- 8.rising
- 9.burning fossil fuels
- 10.carbon dioxide, methane or water vapor (any one)
- 11.less white ice reflects sunlight, so more heat is absorbed
- ★conservation of angular momentum
Answer key (click to show)
- 1.past temperatures and gas levels in the atmosphere
- 2.without it Earth would be too cold
- 3.weather is day-to-day; climate is the long-term pattern
- 4.gases in the atmosphere trap heat near Earth's surface
- 5.renewable energy, efficiency or less driving (any one)
- 6.fewer trees absorb CO₂, so levels rise
- 7.melting ice and warming water expanding
- 8.rising
- 9.burning fossil fuels
- 10.carbon dioxide, methane or water vapor (any one)
- 11.less white ice reflects sunlight, so more heat is absorbed
- ★conservation of angular momentum (challenge corner)
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