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Causes and Effects of Climate Change
Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are dying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It has become clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than at any time in the last 800,000 years.
We often call the result global warming, but it is causing a set of changes to the Earth's climate, or long-term weather patterns, that varies from place to place. While many people think of global warming and climate change as synonyms, scientists use "climate change" when describing the complex shifts now affecting our planet's weather and climate systems — in part because some areas actually get cooler in the short term.
Climate change encompasses not only rising average temperatures but also extreme weather events, shifting wildlife populations and habitats, rising seas, and a range of other impacts. All of those changes are emerging as humans continue to add heat-trapping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely on.
What will we do — what can we do — to slow this human-caused warming? How will we cope with the changes we _______ into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out, the fate of the Earth as we know it — coasts, forests, farms, and snow-capped mountains — hangs in the balance.
By Christina Nunez
Adapted from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/global-warming-overview
Read the statements. Mark (T) for true and (F) false.
( ) Glaciers, sea levels, forests and wild life are suffering from global warming.
( ) Global warming and climate change are synonyms.
( ) Greenhouse gases interferes in weather events.
( ) Humans still need to find out how to solve global warming problems.
Mark the correct option.
Read text III to answer questions 30 to 32.
Text III
Causes and Effects of Climate Change
Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are dying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It has become clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than at any time in the last 800,000 years.
We often call the result global warming, but it is causing a set of changes to the Earth's climate, or long-term weather patterns, that varies from place to place. While many people think of global warming and climate change as synonyms, scientists use "climate change" when describing the complex shifts now affecting our planet's weather and climate systems — in part because some areas actually get cooler in the short term.
Climate change encompasses not only rising average temperatures but also extreme weather events, shifting wildlife populations and habitats, rising seas, and a range of other impacts. All of those changes are emerging as humans continue to add heat-trapping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely on.
What will we do — what can we do — to slow this human-caused warming? How will we cope with the changes we _______ into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out, the fate of the Earth as we know it — coasts, forests, farms, and snow-capped mountains — hangs in the balance.
By Christina Nunez
Adapted from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/global-warming-overview
Read the statements. Mark (T) for true and (F) false.
( ) Glaciers, sea levels, forests and wild life are suffering from global warming.
( ) Global warming and climate change are synonyms.
( ) Greenhouse gases interferes in weather events.
( ) Humans still need to find out how to solve global warming problems.
Mark the correct option.
Resolução comentada
V, F, V, V.
1) V: geleiras derretem e a vida selvagem sofre. 2) F: o texto diz que muitos pensam que são sinônimos, mas cientistas preferem "climate change", por ser mais amplo. 3) V: os gases estufa alteram o clima e levam a eventos extremos. 4) V: ainda se pergunta como lidar com o problema, e os humanos "struggle to figure it all out".
Análise das alternativas
As demais sequências erram ao marcar a 2ª como verdadeira ou ao marcar a 3ª ou a 4ª como falsas.
Referência: Interpretação do Text III
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