Environmental Impact - Global Warming (HL Option C.5)

Question 1

What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?

Answer 1

Organization which spreads knowledge of the scientific, economical, technical, and social aspects of climate change

Question 2

How have people contributed to weakening the ozone layer?

Answer 2

The use of Chlorofluorocarbons

Question 3

List the waves in the electromagnetic spectrum (lowest energy to highest energy)

Answer 3

radio, micro, infrared, visible, uv, x ray, gamma ray

Question 4

List the main greenhouse gases?

Answer 4

carbon dioxide, methane, water vapour

Question 5

What is the greenhouse effect?

Answer 5

greenhouse gasses trap energy emitted from the sun, so it remains trapped in the earths atmosphere

Question 6

Why does IR radiation cause covalent bonds to bend and stretch?

Answer 6

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Question 7

What is the most common greenhouse gas in the atmosphere? Where is it from?

Answer 7

Water vapour, natural from the earth

Question 8

What is anthropogenic green house gas?

Answer 8

Green house gases which have been released as a result of human activity