Impact of climate change on sea levels

12 questions

1. Match the words about climate science to their definitions.
2. For how long have climate scientists being measuring Earth’s temperature?
3. What is the change in sea level that happens twice a day called?
4. What is the cause of global warming?
5. When did Earth’s global surface temperature start to rise quickly above its long-term average?
6. What would cause Earth’s global surface temperature to start to fall?
7. How is the sea level measured?
8. What do satellite and tide gauge measurements show is happening to sea levels?
9. How many ice sheets are there on Earth?
10. What is the name of a large mass of ice moving very slowly downhill due to the gravitational force acting on it.
11. What is **not** causing sea levels to rise?
12. What happens to particles of sea water that causes oceans to expand?

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