Download Round 1: Global warming basics Q2

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Sophie Lewis @aviandelights
Kate Auty @kateauty
Anna MacDonald @Dr_AnnaM
Rules of trivia
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3 rounds of trivia
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Work together in pairs, groups or on your own
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Winning team gets amazing* prizes
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After each round, we will have an Ask Me Anything
session. Shout out or write down your questions
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No cheating!
*amazing not guaranteed
Round 1.
Climate change fundamentals
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q1
Which of these
greenhouse gases is
most abundant in the
atmosphere?
a) Carbon dioxide
b) Methane
c) Water vapour
d) Nitrous oxide
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q2
Attach the names of these four climate science pioneers
with the manner of their death:
1) Roald Amundsen (polar climate)
2) Robert FitzRoy (founder of the Met Office)
3) John Tyndall (discovered of the CO2 greenhouse effect)
4) Alfred Wegener (continental drift and paleo-climate).
A) accidentally poisoned
B) skiing
C) airplane crash
D) committed suicide
John Tyndall
having fun
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q3
Without any greenhouse effect, what would the Earth’s
global mean temperature be?
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q4
Edvard Munch’s famous
painting ‘The Scream’ was
inspired by which major
volcanic eruption?
Bonus point: In which
decade did it occur?
Round 1: Global warming basics
Q5
In the past two decades, how
much has the rate in sea level
rise accelerated, compared to
the average since 1901?
A. 8 percent
B. 28 percent
C. 48 percent
D. 88 percent
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q6
Cape Grim monitoring station
recently recorded atmospheric
carbon dioxide concentrations
above which milestone level?
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q7
As floating sea ice in the Arctic melts, does it add to sea
level?
A) Not at all
B) Yes, a little bit
C) It lowers it
Round 1: Global warming basics
Q8
What is the urban heat island effect?
A) UHIE is a term used to describe excessive sweating
caused by a scarcity of aquatic centres within urban
areas.
B) UHIE is a term used to describe densely populated
island nations.
C) UHIE is a term used to describe the way in which
parked cars appear to ‘float’ in a mirage on hot days.
D) UHIE is a term used to describe the excessive
accumulation of heat within urban built environments.
Bonus point: What is the name given to
excess heat deaths during a heat wave?
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q9
An April survey of the
Great Barrier Reef
estimated that large
areas were struggling.
What percentage of the
Reef had been affected
by bleaching?
Bonus point if you can spell the name of coral symbiotic algae.
Q10
At the moment, Canberra experiences an average of 23 days
per year with very high or extreme fire danger. What is this
average predicted to be in 2020 if climate change affects
temperatures and water availability as predicted?
A) 23 days
B) 35-38 days
C) 16-18 days
D) 26-29 days
Round 2.
Climate change and policy
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q1
Which recently elected Qld senator
has stated that climate science is a
scam?
a.
Pauline Hanson
b. Joe Bjelke Peterson
c.
Malcolm Roberts
d. Scott Ludlam
Bonus point if you can name the Senator’s party
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q2
Name one of the Commonwealth
Government’s tax-based fossil fuel
subsidies?
a. Fuel tax credit scheme
b. Exemption for airline transport
employees
c. Concessional rate of excise on
shipping cruise liners
d. Tourism to Botswana incentive
scheme
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q3
What is the ACT ecological footprint?
a.
b.
c.
d.
9.8 global hectares / person
6.4 global hectares / person
8.9 global hectares / person
23.0 global hectares per person
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q4
What is the dirtiest coal fired
power station in Australia?
A) Hazelwood.
B) Valespoint
C) Redbank
D)Tumut
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q5
Name two Australian universities that have committed to being
fossil free?
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q6
In November 2010, the ACT Legislative Assembly passed the
Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act 2010 which
established ACT emissions reduction targets. Which of the
following is not a current emissions reduction target?
A) 40% below 1990 levels by 2020
B) 60% below 2000 levels by 2050
C) zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2060
D) 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q7
In which city did these protests occur
during the United Nations
conference on Climate Change
COP21 in 2015
A)
B)
C)
D)
Copenhagen
Paris
New York
Rio de Janeiro
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q8
Wind power is limited in its capacity to provide Australia’s
stationary energy needs because:
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Wind farms are visually awful
Coal is good for humanity
It causes Wind Turbine Syndrome
Storage and baseload needs are problematic
None of the above, they can contribute to our energy mix
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q9
The latest IPCC report came out in 2013. What does the ‘I’
stand for?
A) Independent
B) International
C) Invitational
D) Intergovernmental
Round
Q10 1: Global warming basics
What is active transport?
A) Transport that involves continuous movement as a key
component.
B) Driving a car to work.
C) Flying a plane to a business meeting interstate.
D) Using unleaded petrol rather than leaded petrol in your vehicle.
Round 3.
Climate and wildlife
Q1
Listed below are the 5 Australian terrestrial ecosystems thought to be
the most vulnerable to climate change, and 5 threatening processes
associated with climate change. Match each ecosystem to the greatest
climate threat it faces.
1) Alpine ecosystems
A) Changes in rainfall and water availability
2) Tropical and subtropical
rainforests
B) Sea level rise
3) Coastal wetlands
C) Warming temperatures
4) Inland arid ecosystems
D) Reduction in available habitat area
5) Tropical savannahs
E) Changes in fire patterns
Q2
A recent study predicted that climatically suitable breeding
habitat for Arctic shorebirds will decline by 2070. How many
of the 24 species studied could lose >95% of their breeding
habitat because of rapid climate change in the Arctic?
A) 1-2 species
C) 16-20 species
B) 10-15 species
D) 3-5 species
From Wauchope et al 2016 Global Change Biology
Q3
A recent study predicted that climatically suitable breeding
habitat for Arctic shorebirds will decline by 2070. How many
of the 24 species studied could lose at least 50% of their
breeding habitat?
A) 22 species
C) 16-20 species
B) 10-15 species
D) 3-5 species
Bonus point if you can
name a species included
in this study that will
actually gain climatically
suitable breeding habitat
by 2070
From Wauchope et al 2016 Global Change Biology
Q4
Some marsupials, including bandicoots, forage for their food
by digging. A single southern brown bandicoot can dig
around 45 foraging pits per day. Approximately how much
soil could one bandicoot displace in a year?
A) 7.6 tonnes
B) 3.9 tonnes
C) 0.5 tonnes
D) 1.3 tonnes
Bonus point: what is the colloquial name for a
bandicoot’s foraging pits?
Q5
Climate change could lead to more extreme weather events in Australia, but
healthy ecosystems may be more resilient. How do digging mammals contribute
to the maintenance of healthy ecosystems in Australia? Does digging:
A) Increase soil turnover, bringing nutrients to the soil
surface and making them available to other
organisms
B) Allow more water to infiltrate the soil, which can
buffer against flooding and store water for plants
C) Disperse plant seeds and fungal spores, which
helps to maintain native vegetation
D) Trap organic matter in soil, reducing fuel loads,
meaning that fires are cooler and less frequent
E) All of the above
Q6
If rainfall in parts of Queensland decreases, as predicted in
some future climate scenarios, this is likely to increase the
area suitable for which type of forest?
A) Tropical rainforest
B) Eucalypt sclerophyll forest
C) Temperate rainforest
D) Mangrove forest
Q7
How might climate change affect the golden bowerbird, a species currently
found only in highland forests in the Wet Tropics of Queensland?
A) Golden bowerbird habitat is very sensitive to
temperature increases, and even just a single
degree of warming could reduce available habitat
by over 60%. Three degrees of warming could send
this species extinct.
B) A possible 25% increase in rainfall and changes to
microclimates in lowland forests will make more
suitable habitat available elsewhere, allowing the
golden bowerbird to survive by colonising new
areas.
C) Cool mountaintops in the Wet Tropics have
provided refuges for wildlife in previous periods of
climatic change, so the golden bowerbird is unlikely
to be unaffected by future changes in climate.
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q8
What is the estimated value of a plane tree? (City of Melbourne
Urban Forest Strategy)
A) $100
B)$1000
C)$10,000
D)$100,000
Round
1: Global warming basics
Q9
Which of the following is not an ecosystem service provided by
canopy cover?
A) Rain water filtration
B) reduction in ambient temperatures
C) Filtration of air pollutants
D) Yarn art display stand
Round
Q10 1: Global warming basics
A grizzly bear, polar bear hybrid is called a:
A)
B)
C)
D)
Grolar bear
Pizzly bear
Pear bear
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