Use Getting Started: Climate Change Quiz (download link below). Have students take the quiz in groups, with a quizmaster for each group. After the quiz, have a class discussion about what students want to learn from this study and what their biggest concerns about climate change are. After your study of the book, they can reflect on these earlier discussions.
Quiz Answers
- F. There will be more precipitation, but shifting wind patterns may carry clouds long distances before they dump their water vapor.
- F. It is odorless and occurs naturally in the atmosphere.
- T. But those that do occur could be more intense.
- c) wind
- a) 97%
- F. It’s a very thin layer.
- F. Young forests, especially tropical forests.
- T. And the Himalayan glaciers could be gone.
- T. But changes to vegetation belts can cause other problems.
- F. Eight times as much.