climate change test

Question 1

what’s weather?

Answer 1

atmospheric conditions over a short period of time

Question 2

what’s climate?

Answer 2

average weather in a region over a long period of time

Question 3

what does eccentricity mean?

Answer 3

orbit

Question 4

what does obliquity mean?

Answer 4

tilt

Question 5

what does precession mean?

Answer 5

wobble

Question 6

What are sunspots?

Answer 6

storms on the surface of the sun causing more heat to the earth

Question 7

What are plate tectonics known for?

Answer 7

Being associated with the continental drift & have shaped the continents

Question 8

what happens during a volcanic eruption?

Answer 8

Ashes and gases are erupted into the stratosphere and above

Question 9

What happens after a volcanic eruption?

Answer 9

short periods (a few years) of cooling

Question 10

what’s el niño?

Answer 10

large-scale cooling

Question 11

what el nina?

Answer 11

large-scale warming

Question 12

What happens when greenhouse gases are added?

Answer 12

It causes more heat to be radiated back into the earth instead of space

Question 13

Definition of anthropogenic

Answer 13

human-made

Question 14

what’s albedo?

Answer 14

measure of how much of the sun’s radiation is reflected by a surface

Question 15

what’s the albedo affect?

Answer 15

increase in earths temperature causes ice to melt, so more radiation is absorbed by the earth’s surface leading to further increases in temperatures

Question 16

What do feedback loops do?

Answer 16

they speed up or slow down a warming trend

Question 17

What are examples of proxy records?

Answer 17

tree rings, ice cores, and fossils

Question 18

what happens when permafrost melts?

Answer 18

carbon dioxide and methane is released into the atmosphere

Question 19

What does the IPCC stand for?

Answer 19

Intergovernmental panel of climate change

Question 20

Where did the kyoto protocol take place?

Answer 20

kyoto, japan

Question 21

how many countries were part of the kyoto protocol?

Answer 21

canada and 160 countries

Question 22

What was the agreement of the kyoto protocol?

Answer 22

the agreement was to set an average 5% reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2012

Question 23

What is carbon tax?

Answer 23

when companies and people are taxed for their not environmentally conscious decisions

Question 24

What are the pros of fossil fuels?

Answer 24

It’s well-developed technology & it’s cheap and reliable

Question 25

What are the cons of fossil fuels?

Answer 25

It produces greenhouse gases, non-renewable in short term, unsustainable, and fuel accidents happen causing environmental damage