Adapt to protect communities and natural habitats

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Adapt to Protect: Climate Action Quiz

Test your knowledge on how to safeguard our communities and natural habitats in the face of climate change. This quiz explores the importance of protected areas, the role of forests as carbon sinks, and how we can all contribute to environmental sustainability.

Learn about biodiversity conservation
Understand the impact of climate change on our planet
Discover ways to support ecosystems

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by PreservingNature423

A defined area that is recognised, dedicated and managed through legal means, set up to conserve nature, biodiversity and ecological processes is?

Ocean Dead Zone

Protected area

World Heritage Site

Ecosystem

Which is the correct way that humans safeguard natural habitats?

Pollution

Reforestation

Overconsumption

Encroaching urbanisation

Protected areas are recognised as essential for conserving biodiversity in the face of climate change, some importance include which of the following? Select ALL answers.

Supporting species to adapt to changing climate pattern

Providing area for expanding urban centres

Protecting from sudden climate events and reducing vulnerability

Supporting economies to adapt to climate change

Each year, how much of the Earth’s surface is taken up by carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

Millions of tons

Thousands of tons

Billions of tons

Trillions of tons

Which natural carbon sink absorbs most of Earth’s CO2 from the atmosphere?

Forest

Ocean

Soil

Atmosphere

Why must we preserve our forests? Select ALL answers.

Tropical forests cool the air around them and the entire planet, as well as creating the rainfall essential for growing food in their regions and beyond.

They absorb carbon-dioxide from the atmosphere.

Wildlife and communities depend on them

They hold vast land to build infrastructure.

How can communities adapt to climate change? Select ALL answers

Preserve large, contiguous areas of open space to better protect ecosystems that might be under pressure from the changing climate.

Build in areas that are vulnerable to climate change related impacts.

Implement more concrete pavements and removal of plants around the community.

Encourage water- and energy-efficient buildings and land use patterns

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