Skip Navigation
menu close modal

MULTIMEDIA

Quiz: Ice and glaciers

Test your knowledge of the many different varieties of frozen water and how these icy realms are connected to climate change.

How much do you know about glaciers and ice caps? Take the quiz.

You can browse a gallery containing this quiz and others here.

Credit

NASA Climate Change website

Preview

Related

This video shows the accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) during a single calendar year.
More
Global Carbon Dioxide: 2020...
Global Carbon Dioxide: 2020-2021
Video: Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row.
More
NASA studies an unusual Arc...
NASA studies an unusual Arctic warming event
A visualization of U.S. East Coast ocean flows
More
Video: Ocean Flow Vignettes
Video: Ocean Flow Vignettes
Captured onboard a NASA Operation IceBridge flight to survey glacier change in a warming world, this photograph shows a beach and stream in Russel Fjord, Alaska, near the terminus of Hubbard Glacier.
More
Beached bergs in Alaska
Beached bergs in Alaska
This visualization shows total sea level change between 1992 and 2019, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3 satellites.
More
Video: 27-Year Sea Level Rise
Video: 27-Year Sea Level Rise
Video: NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) and Operation IceBridge missions investigate Greenland's thinning ice sheets from above and below.
More
Video: Greenland's thinning...
Video: Greenland's thinning ice
Continuing key Earth observations is really important to see how our atmosphere, land, and ocean are changing over time. A long-term record, combined with cutting-edge observations from the new NASA Earth System Observatory, will continue to push boundaries to better understand our ever-changing planet.
More
How NASA Satellites Help Mo...
How NASA Satellites Help Model the Future of Climate
Ice covers 10 percent of Earth's surface and helps moderate the planet's temperature. Glaciers and ice sheets around the world are melting at an alarming rate. By keeping an eye on Earth's ice from space, NASA satellites help us understand the global effects of climate change.
More
Ice covers 10 percent of Ea...
Video: Frozen Earth
Nuestra Tierra tiene fiebre. Nuestros científicos creen que la temperatura de la Tierra podría subir de 3 a 10 grados Fahrenheit durante este siglo.
More
La Tierra tiene fiebre
La Tierra tiene fiebre
With autumn's arrival, chlorophyll begins to cede its dominance in the photosynthetic process, revealing yellow and orange tones on land, while in the ocean and lakes, phytoplankton pigments highlight different water masses and current systems.
More
Changing colors across land...
Photosynthetic pigments by land and sea
Track Earth's vital signs and fly along with NASA's Earth-observing satellites.
More
Eyes on the Earth
Interactive: Eyes on the Earth
Ubicada en el Ártico cerca del Polo Norte, la isla de Groenlandia está cubierta por una enorme capa de hielo equivalente a tres veces el tamaño de Texas y de 1,6 kilómetros (una milla) de profundidad en promedio.
More
Hielo de Groenlandia
Hielo de Groenlandia
Graphic: Global surface temperature changes versus the Sun's energy that Earth receives in watts (units of energy) per square meter since 1880.
More
Temperature vs Solar Activity
Graphic: Temperature vs Solar Activity
The relentless rise of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
More
The inexorable rise of carb...
Graphic: The relentless rise of carbon dioxide
La fuerza de la gravedad no solo evita que nos alejemos flotando, sino que también permite a la NASA estudiar el agua y el hielo de la Tierra desde el espacio.
More
Balanza en el cielo
Balanza en el cielo
Graphic: A simplified animation of the greenhouse effect.
More
The Greenhouse Effect
Graphic: The Greenhouse Effect
Animation showing changes in Greenland ice mass since 2002 based on satellite data.
More
Video: Greenland Ice Mass L...
Video: Greenland Ice Mass Loss 2002-2023
The basics of sea level rise, expressed in everyday terms, and what it means for those on the coast.
More
Rising Tides: Understanding...
Rising Tides: Understanding Sea Level Rise
Video: Using observations from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) satellite, scientists developed a model of the behavior of carbon in the atmosphere from September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015.
More
Following carbon dioxide th...
Video: Following atmospheric carbon dioxide
Karen St. Germain, NASA's director of Earth science, gave a presentation at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
More
Video: What NASA Knows from...
Video: What NASA Knows from Decades of Earth System Observations
Video: Scientists combined an array of NASA satellite observations of Earth with data on human activities to map locations where freshwater is changing around the globe and why.
More
For 15 years, GRACE tracked...
Video: For 15 years, GRACE tracked freshwater movements around the world
Video: The NASA satellite fleet in 2017, from low Earth orbit to the DSCOVR satellite taking in the million-mile view.
More
Video: NASA's vantage point...
Video: NASA's vantage point to view Earth
NASA Earth Right Now promo
More
NASA Earth Right Now promo
Video: NASA Earth Right Now promo
Test your knowledge of sea level rise and its effect on global populations.
More
Test your knowledge of sea ...
Quiz: Sea level rise
An animation with voiceover narration showing the global ocean tides as a complex system of rotating and trapped waves with a mixture of frequencies.
More
Video: Global Ocean Tides
Video: Global Ocean Tides

Explore

Interactives, galleries and apps

Images of Change

Images of Change

Explore a stunning gallery of before-and-after images of Earth from land and space that reveal our home planet in a state of flux.
More
Climate Time Machine

Climate Time Machine

Travel through Earth's recent climate history and see how increasing carbon dioxide, global temperature and sea ice have changed over time.
More
Eyes on the Earth

Eyes on the Earth

Track Earth's vital signs from space and fly along with NASA's Earth-observing satellites in an interactive 3D visualization.
More
Global Ice Viewer

Global Ice Viewer

Earth's ice cover is shrinking. See how climate change has affected glaciers, sea ice, and continental ice sheets.
More