Drive it Down! – climate change and carbon cycle quiz

Climate change is complex – there are lots of interacting systems and lots of specialist language too.

The quiz in this activity has a focus on:

• greenhouse gases and where they come from

• ways to reduce emissions

• carbon dioxide and the carbon cycle

• key terms and related acronyms.

The quiz was developed for GNS Science’s Drive it Down! project, which supports younger students to learn about the carbon cycle and develop student-led initiatives to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Drive it Down! – a context for learning has additional resources and background information. Most of the information needed to answer the quiz questions can be found in the pop-up boxes in Drive it Down! – the carbon cycle and climate change and/or in the GNS Science Carbon Cycle.

Students can use the online quiz below or a paper-based version included in the Word file below. The paper-based version can be edited to suit your programme.

In this activity, students answer questions related to greenhouse gas emissions within cities. By the end of the activity, students should be able to:

• use reading literacy skills to locate information and answer the quiz questions

• identify some greenhouse gases

• recognise specialist vocabulary and acronyms related to greenhouse gas emissions and measurement

• discuss some aspects of the carbon cycle

• discuss greenhouse gas sources in urban areas

• discuss related mitigation strategies such as active transport/changing transport modes.

Download the Word file (see link below).