Exam 1

Question 1

Stranded Assets

Answer 1

Assets that have suffered from unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations or conversion to liabilities.

Question 2

Heartland Institute

Answer 2

An industry-funded “think tank” that whose mission is stated to be “discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems”.

Question 3

Fox News

Answer 3

A source of climate change denial, republican source (Pro-industry)

Question 4

MSNBC

Answer 4

Pro climate change (Mostly liberal)

Question 5

Reliable?

Answer 5

Education in climate science, peer reviewed works, conflicts of interest?

Question 6

IPCC

Answer 6

Inter-governmental panel on climate change

Question 7

NOAA

Answer 7

National oceanic and atmospheric administration

Question 8

NASA

Answer 8

National aeronautics and space administration

Question 9

Heat

Answer 9

A form of energy

Question 10

Temperature

Answer 10

an effect of heat

Question 11

Weather

Answer 11

short-term, local

Question 12

Climate

Answer 12

A long-term average of at least 30 years, can be local, regional or global

Question 13

Urban heat island effect

Answer 13

Due to the construct of urban areas they catch and hold onto more heat and have a higher average temperature.

Question 14

Evaporative cooling

Answer 14

Green areas tend to be cooler due to this

Question 15

Troposphere

Answer 15

about 10km thick, lowest and densest layer

Question 16

Stratosphere

Answer 16

Sits above the troposphere, has the ozone layer

Question 17

Air

Answer 17

made up of 78% N2 and 21% O2

Question 18

Greenhouse Effect

Answer 18

The suns energy is absorbed by the earths crust and the ocean warming them. This energy is released back into space, but some gets caught by greenhouse gasses and cannot escape. Water vapor(60%), methane(8%), nitrous oxide(6%), carbon dioxide(26%).

Question 19

Plants and plankton GROWING

Answer 19

absorb CO2

Question 20

Plants and plankton DECAYING

Answer 20

release CO2

Question 21

Fossil Fuels

Answer 21

Oil, natural gas, coal

Question 22

Jet streams

Answer 22

winds mainly in the upper troposphere

Question 23

Barometric pressure

Answer 23

Low pressure (Rising), High pressure (sinking)

Question 24

Cyclone

Answer 24

Low pressure system. Rising air inside it spins counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere.

Question 25

Anticyclone

Answer 25

High pressure system. The sinking air spins clockwise in the northern hemisphere.

Question 26

Coriolis effect

Answer 26

Drift to the right in the northern hemisphere and drift to the left in the southern hemisphere.

Question 27

Trade winds

Answer 27

prevailing tropical easterly winds that have been so reliable that sailors have used and depended on them for centuries.

Question 28

Intertropical Convergence Zone

Answer 28

Between Hadley cells, the warm, moist tropical air rises and condenses, forming clouds.

Question 29

Tropical rain belt

Answer 29

Tied to ITCZ

Question 30

Northern summer

Answer 30

pulls the ITCZ

Question 31

Arrhenius

Answer 31

Swedish scientist, late 1800’s, studied the physics of GHG

Question 32

Mauna Loa

Answer 32

Observatory in Hawaii where the longest CO2 record is kept

Question 33

Oil Formation

Answer 33

marine organisms (Plankton)

Question 34

Natural gas formation

Answer 34

Methane hydrates, forms from decay

Question 35

Coal

Answer 35

from former plants

Question 36

Suess effect

Answer 36

Burning fossil fuels with little Carbon-13 will dilute the troposphere with Carbon-12 and the decreasing amount of Carbon-13 points to fossil fuels.