APES Chapter 18

Question 1

climate

Answer 1

an area’s long-term atmospheric conditions

Question 2

global climate change

Answer 2

trend’s in earth’s climate

Question 3

global warming

Answer 3

refers specifically to an increase in Earth’s average temperature

Question 4

greenhouse gases

Answer 4

gases that absorb the radiation put off by the surface after absorbing heat and then remits more energy

Question 5

greenhouse effect

Answer 5

the warming of earth’s surface and atmosphere and warms the surface because of it

Question 6

aerosols

Answer 6

microscopic droplets and particles can have a warming or cooling effect

Question 7

radiative forcing

Answer 7

the amount of change in the thermal energy that a given factor causes

Question 8

Milankovich cycles

Answer 8

the cycles in which the Earth’s rotation and orbit around the sun change

Question 9

paleoclimate

Answer 9

climate in the geologic past

Question 10

proxy indicators

Answer 10

types of indirectevidence tat serve as substitutes for direct measurment and that shed light on past climate

Question 11

climate models

Answer 11

programs that take all the known information about the atmosphere, ocean and their interactions and simulate a climate process

Question 12

Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC)

Answer 12

group of hundreds of scientists and government official from different countries that come together and summarize the evidence we have and predict the future impacts the evidence will have on the Earth

Question 13

Fourth Assessment Report

Answer 13

a report that represented the info about the climate around the world and predicted the change and showed examples of how we can change/slow it