EARTH SCIENCE
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
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Question
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Nearly all of the land is now covered by anthromes or human-altered biomes.
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All of the land is covered in natural biomes.
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Only some of the land is covered by anthromes or human-altered biomes.
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None of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Natural biomes once covered nearly all of the land of the United States. How has the land of the United States changed today? Nearly all of the land is now covered by anthromes, or human-altered biomes.
Detailed explanation-2: -More frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans can directly harm animals, destroy the places they live, and wreak havoc on people’s livelihoods and communities. As climate change worsens, dangerous weather events are becoming more frequent or severe.
Detailed explanation-3: -Global warming refers only to the Earth’s rising surface temperature, while climate change includes warming and the “side effects” of warming-like melting glaciers, heavier rainstorms, or more frequent drought.
Detailed explanation-4: -These have been caused by many natural factors, including changes in the sun, emissions from volcanoes, variations in Earth’s orbit and levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). Global climate change has typically occurred very slowly, over thousands or millions of years.