The Nature Conservancy. Protecting nature. Preserving life.™

Test your knowledge of forests and climate change in Maryland/DC with our interactive climate change quiz! Can you answer all of the following questions and get a perfect score?

Click on the links that you think best answer each quiz question below. Good luck!

1. When forests are cleared, they release which of the following gases, proven to cause climate change?

   helium

   helium | Incorrect

   carbon dioxide

   carbon dioxide | Correct

   Correct

   nitrogen

   nitrogen | Incorrect

   hydrogen

   hydrogen | Incorrect

2. What approximate percentage of carbon emissions worldwide is caused by cutting down trees?

   close to 10 percent

   close to 10 percent | Incorrect

   close to 15 percent

   close to 15 percent | Incorrect

   close to 20 percent

   close to 20 percent | Correct

   Correct

   close to 25 percent

   close to 25 percent | Incorrect

3. Deforestation is the second leading contributor of carbon emissions worldwide.

   True

   True | Correct

   Correct

   False

   False | Incorrect

   | Incorrect

   | Incorrect

4. Forests are destroyed at what rate around the world?

   one acre per day

   one acre per day | Incorrect

   one acre per hour

   one acre per hour | Incorrect

   one acre per minute

   one acre per minute | Incorrect

   one acre per second

   one acre per second | Incorrect

5. What do you think the increase in Maryland's average annual temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, by 2100 will be?

   4.9 degrees

   4.9 degrees | Incorrect

   6.7 degrees

   6.7 degrees | Incorrect

   7.9 degrees

   7.9 degrees | Correct

   Correct

   10.2 degrees

   10.2 degrees | Incorrect

6. Protecting one acre of mature forest from destruction is equivalent to taking how many cars off the road for one year?

   90 cars

   90 cars | Incorrect

   60 cars

   60 cars | Incorrect

   30 cars

   30 cars | Correct

   Correct

   1 car

   1 car | Incorrect

7. Approximately how many ash trees, endangered by the emerald ash borer, are there in Baltimore and surrounding counties?

   60,000 trees

   60,000 trees | Incorrect

   600,000 trees

   600,000 trees | Incorrect

   6,000,000 trees

   6,000,000 trees | Correct

   Correct

   60,000,000 trees

   60,000,000 trees | Incorrect

8. At the current rate of deforestation, tropical rain forests will virtually disappear as functioning ecosystems within how many years?

   100 years

   100 years | Correct

   Correct

   200 years

   200 years | Incorrect

   500 years

   500 years | Incorrect

   1,000 years

   1,000 years | Incorrect

9. If you add together Cranesville Swamp, the Glades, and Finzel Swamp, how many trees (nearly all red spruce) has the Conservancy in MD/DC planted in the past seven years?

   280,500 trees

   280,500 trees | Incorrect

   28,500 trees

   28,500 trees | Correct

   Correct

   2,850 trees

   2,850 trees | Incorrect

   285 trees

   285 trees | Incorrect