Which one of these statements is correct _______________?
Correct answer: C. global warming is the rise in average temperature at Earth's surface
- A. global warming is simply another term for the greenhouse effect
- B. global warming is a problem caused mainly by unregulated industrialization in the developing countries
- C. global warming is the rise in average temperature at Earth's surface
- D. global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon
Explanation
Global warming means the long-term rise in Earth's average surface temperature. The greenhouse effect is the heat-trapping atmospheric process, and global warming is not simply identical to that process or exclusively a natural phenomenon.
Last updated
Practise Social Change and Development
175 free Social Change and Development MCQs from Sociology, each with the correct answer and an explanation. Unlimited attempts, no account needed.
Exams that ask Sociology questions like this
Sociology is on this paper prepared for on TestUstad, and all of them draw the same bank, so this question is worth knowing for it.
Related questions
A country becomes over populated when_____________?
A pastoralist society depends upon ?
According to Castells Which of the following is a world city ?
According to Castles and Miller which ONE of these is NOT a developing tendency in migration ?
According to demographic transition theory, both birth and death rates are high in which stages of demographic transition ?