The graph shows sea surface temperatures and the level of cyclone activity in the North Atlantic Ocean over six decades.

Which claim could be made based on the data in the graph?
A. One change to Earth's surface has little influence on Earth's weather systems.
B. Climate change is likely to reduce extreme weather events.
C. Climate change is caused by extreme weather events.
D. One change to Earth's surface can result in changes to other Earth systems.

All of the spheres on the Earth are interconnected, and they constantly interact with each other. When there's a change in one of the spheres, than the other ones have changes as well. This is the case with the hydrosphere and the atmosphere. The atmosphere is becoming hotter in the past few decades, and this is contributing the increased temperature of the hydrosphere (in this case, the sea surface). With the increasing temperatures of the sea surface, the cyclone activity becomes bigger and stronger, and this contributes to lots of natural disasters. So we can easily see the interaction and changes in this case between the spheres;

* atmosphere gets hotter - temperature of the sea surface rises - bigger cyclone activity.