District Social Science Test

Question 1

What BEST describes the land within the boundaries of present-day Canada during the Last Glacial Maximum?

Answer 1

It was a land of ice sheets and glaciers.

Question 2

What is the name of the time period in which humans have contributed to global warming and discussed how that warming has impacted human societies?

Answer 2

the Anthropocene

Question 3

The Anthropocene derives from Greek words meaning

Answer 3

human and new

Question 4

The Holocene Epoch is considered to be part of which time period

Answer 4

Quaternary

Question 5

According to the Keeling Curve, which measurement of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2020 is closest in relationship to that of about 800,000 years ago?

Answer 5

The 2020 measurement is about 2.2 times greater.

Question 6

Which BEST describes the notable climate event that occurred in Mesopotamia around 2250 BCE?

Answer 6

one that brought on cooler and dryer conditions

Question 7

The earth’s subsystems interact with each other to influence what two factors?

Answer 7

weather and climate

Question 8

Which choice BEST describes the weather that occurred during the peak period of the Roman Empire, 150 BCE to 250 BCE?

Answer 8

The important parts of the empire experienced stable conditions and stable rainfall.

Question 9

The cryosphere is often considered part of the

Answer 9

hydrosphere

Question 10

In 1959, who traveled to Washington, D.C. to warn the National Academy of Sciences that increasing CO2 levels throughout the rest of the twentieth century could have grave consequences?

Answer 10

Bert Bolin

Question 11

In the Marist Poll of 2023 on prioritizing climate change or economic growth, which group supported this statement: “Economic growth should be given priority, even at the risk of ignoring climate change”?

Answer 11

Republicans

Question 12

Which of the following are the three components of the triple planetary crisis?

Answer 12

climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity loss

Question 13

The Middle Holocene is also known as the

Answer 13

Northgrippian Stage/Age

Question 14

In 1985, who issued the report titled, “The greenhouse effect, climatic change and ecosystems”?

Answer 14

an ICSU committee, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)

Question 15

Broadly speaking, when professional historians refer to an archive, they mean

Answer 15

a physical repository of documents

Question 16

Which statement is TRUE about the Mediterranean world between the 8th to the 5th centuries?

Answer 16

The 8th to the 5th centuries were cooler and wetter than before.

Question 17

What contribution has Katherine Hayhoe made to fighting climate change?

Answer 17

She created an effective TED Talk addressed to Evangelical Christians.

Question 18

According to traditional Western thought, what BEST identifies the period in which human centered themselves in the world?

Answer 18

the Renaissance

Question 19

The year 1927 is noted for the major oil discovery in

Answer 19

Kirkuk, Iraq

Question 20

What BEST describes the issues involved in the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation protests to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline?

Answer 20

sovereignty, environmental impact, drinking water purity, and religious sites

Question 21

Why do climatologists routinely round large numbers?

Answer 21

Climatologists use a different dating system from Western scholars and global scholars in dialogue with the West

Question 22

In 2018, who carried the climate change protest sign stating “SKOLSTREJK FOR KLIMATET”?

Answer 22

Greta Thunberg

Question 23

In 2020, which gas made up more than 70% of U.S. greenhouse emissions?

Answer 23

carbon dioxide

Question 24

How many countries have a greater than 1% share of the world economy?

Answer 24

18

Question 25

In terms of climate history, Mesopotamian civilizations began

Answer 25

in the last centuries of the Middle Holocene

Question 26

Which choice below BEST describes occupying and residing in land that one forcibly obtains from existing inhabitants?

Answer 26

settler colonialism

Question 27

Which of the following can be used as proxies for estimating past weather events?

Answer 27

weather diaries, ship longbooks, works of art, and grain prices

Question 28

What is a Keeling Curve?

Answer 28

a graph of CO2 measurements over thousands of years compiled by Charles David Keeling

Question 29

In 2022, which three countries comprised the bottom three of the top ten oil producers by each producing just under 4 million barrels per day?

Answer 29

Brazil, Iran, and Kuwait

Question 30

What is the “proposed new geological epoch resulting from significant human-driven changes to the structure and functioning of the Earth System, including the climate system” according to the IPCC?

Answer 30

the Anthropocene

Question 31

Which of the following BEST describes how local climate activists in Louisiana responded to the carbon capture project?

Answer 31

They raised concerns about the environmental risks of carbon storage.

Question 32

Alessandra Korap Munduruku is known for her impact on the mining operations by Anglo American in Brazil since she did which of the following?

Answer 32

She led a coalition that resulted in the withdrawal of mining applications.

Question 33

In which major civilization did the Harappan phase occur?

Answer 33

Indus

Question 34

The term Archives of Society is BEST understood to refer to

Answer 34

sources produced by humans that contain information about the climate

Question 35

An interglacial period is BEST understood as

Answer 35

a warm period between ice ages

Question 36

What is one reason why climate change remains a divisive issue in the United States?

Answer 36

Political affiliations influence perceptions of climate science and policy priorities.

Question 37

When positive feedbacks push climate change to a tipping point, what BEST explains what will happen?

Answer 37

The change will reach a point of no return.

Question 38

The Mandate of Heaven is BEST understood as a Chinese concept that

Answer 38

external conditions such as prosperity and favorable weather validate the ruler’s authority

Question 39

Which members of Congress campaigned for the passage of the Green New Deal Legislation in 2019?

Answer 39

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey

Question 40

What role did fossil fuels play in the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution?

Answer 40

They were burned to power steam machines.