Climate Change

Question 1

Climate

Answer 1

How the atmosphere behaves over a long period of time and space

Average regional weather pattern over decades

Question 2

Weather

Answer 2

Conditions of the atmosphere over a short period of time

Can change witching minutes or hours

Question 3

Temperature anomaly

Answer 3

Compare (subtract) the measured temperature from the normal (average temp) to get the anomaly

Anomalies are representative of temperature changes over large areas and distances a

Question 4

What are the two ways to change the temperature of the earth?

Answer 4

1. Change the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth (strength of sun or earths position to the sun)
2. Chang the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

Question 5

Solar cycle

Answer 5

11 year cycle where the sun brightens and darkens, relaxing various amounts of solar radiation

Question 6

Milankovitch cycles

Answer 6

Describes how the chase of the earths orbit changes over time.

Eccentricity, precession, tilt

Highly predictable and operat eon long time scales

Question 7

Eccentricity

Answer 7

Earths orbit changing between more circular and oval

Question 8

Precession

Answer 8

Changes in axis direction

Parts of the earth will be warmer than others (by hemisphere)

Question 9

Tilt

Answer 9

Change in the angle of the axis

Parts of the earth will be warmer than others

Question 10

How does the concentration of GHG chin the atmosphere change over time

Answer 10

The natural carbon cycle, volcanoes, anthropogenic forcing

Question 11

What’s really the cause of modern climate change?

Answer 11

Us.

It couldn’t possibly be anything else
Our observations match this cause

Question 12

attenuate

Answer 12

The term describes how the amplitude of seismic waves gets smaller as they travel.