<p> Name Class Date </p><p>16.4 Responding to Climate Change</p><p>Use and Production of Electricity</p><p>1. Fill in the chart with three ways to conserve energy and three suggestions for alternate sources of electricity.</p><p>Ways to Conserve Energy Alternate Sources of Electricity</p><p>2. Why is it important for individuals to reduce their carbon footprints?</p><p>Transportation</p><p>3. Use the percentages to correctly fill in the amount of energy lost for each use. 2% 5% 14% 17% 62%</p><p>4. Why are vehicles in other nations more efficient than vehicles in the United States?</p><p>5. What is one way students could reduce their dependence on cars?</p><p>Other Approaches to Reducing Greenhouse Gases</p><p>Match each approach to reducing greenhouse gases to the statement that best describes it.</p><p>6. cap-and-trade a. program in which a government sets a 7. carbon tax limit on carbon emissions, but allows industries to sell leftover allowances 8. carbon offset b. storage system for carbon 9. carbon sequestration c. a fee the government charges polluters</p><p> d. voluntary payment made to reduce greenhouse gases 10. How can improved agriculture and forestry help reduce greenhouse gas emissions?</p><p>11. What is one identified difficulty with storing captured carbon underground?</p><p>Cooperation Among Nations</p><p>12. What was the main reason the plan drafted at the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change did not succeed?</p><p>13. Why has the United States not signed the Kyoto Protocol?</p><p>14. Why was the result of the Copenhagen Accord noted as a hopeful sign for the future?</p>