a. The excerpt above included the following measures of change. For each, select if it is a rate of
change, a relative change, or an absolute change.

try to halt the warming at 2.7 degrees F (1.5 degrees C) above Earth's average
temperature before the Industrial Age)
- average surface temperatures on Earth rose, on average, 1.71 degrees Fahrenheit
(0.95 degrees Celsius) between 1880 and 2016
during the last ice age when northeastern North America was covered by more than
3,000 feet of ice, the global average temperature was only 5 to 9 degrees cooler than it
is today
the Earth's atmosphere now traps twice as much heat as it did in 2005

a. relative change
b. rate of change
c. absolute change

b. Use the given information to complete the following sentence: The temperature of the earth
increased by_______% between 1880 and 2016.

Give the calculation that gives your above answer:_________