BaCCC/Module 2/Assessment

Module 2: Impacts and Consequences of Climate Change

True false question

Indicate whether the following statements are true or false:

• In the long term, the most dangerous consequence of climate change is the threat to our food and water security.
  • True
    • Correct.
  • False
    • Incorrect.
• One impact of climate change is more severe allergies.
  • True
    • Correct.
  • False
    • Incorrect.
• Only a few of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals will be impacted by climate change.
  • True
    • Incorrect.
  • False
    • Correct.
• Climate change is happening much later than scientists projected.
  • True
    • Incorrect.
  • False
    • Correct.
• Fossil fuel corporations have known about the serious impacts of climate change for decades.
  • True
    • Correct.
  • False
    • Incorrect.
• Several barriers to climate change action are psychological.
  • True
    • Correct.
  • False
    • Incorrect.
• A climate change awareness campaign should use complex scientific language.
  • True
    • Incorrect.
  • False
    • Correct.
• People do not like to be told what to do about climate change.
  • True
    • Incorrect.
  • False
    • Correct.

Multiple choice question

Select the correct option

• Impacts can be defined as having
  • no effects at all on someone or something
    • Incorrect.
  • strong effects on someone or something
    • Correct.
  • calming effects
    • Incorrect.
  • no signs of change
    • Incorrect.
• The drying of rivers and lakes is a sign of
  • good rains that are coming
    • Incorrect.
  • melting icebergs
    • Incorrect.
  • high water consumption
    • Incorrect.
  • climate change
    • Correct.
• Which one of the following is NOT a climate change impact?
  • record-breakingly hot heatwaves
    • Incorrect.
  • melting of glaciers
    • Incorrect.
  • cutting of trees
    • Correct.
  • drought
    • Incorrect.
• Which one of the following is a consequence of climate change?
  • plenty of food
    • Incorrect.
  • malaria spreading to new regions
    • Correct.
  • fresh water in all the rivers all over the world
    • Incorrect.
  • clean air
    • Incorrect.
• Attribution science is a new science that figures out
  • who is to blame for the most severe impacts of climate change
    • Incorrect.
  • whether climate change made a weather event more severe
    • Incorrect.
  • whether climate change caused an extreme weather event
    • Incorrect.
  • what to blame a hurricane, cyclone or typhoon on
    • Correct.
• Approximately how many tonnes of greenhouse gases are humans emitting into the atmosphere every year?
  • 500 tonnes
    • Incorrect.
  • 500,000 tonnes
    • Incorrect.
  • 50 million tonnes
    • Incorrect.
  • 50 billion tonnes
    • Correct.
• People who work in the military and global security call climate change a ____________.
  • threat additive
    • Incorrect.
  • threat subtractor
    • Incorrect.
  • threat multiplier
    • Correct.
  • threat divider
    • Incorrect.