global climate change final exam

Question 1

What are the factors controlling temperature and climate change?

Answer 1

plastic asthenosphere, the sun, liquid water, and biotic evolution

Question 2

ocean basins opening and closing due continental masses colliding amd roftomg apart; multidirectional process

Answer 2

supercontinent cycle (wilson cycle)

Question 3

the interlinkage of the physical and biological

Answer 3

the earth system

Question 4

how to describe changes

Answer 4

rate, type, frequency , agency

Question 5

non reversible changes

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creation of earth

Question 6

`unidirectional changes

Answer 6

formation of the moon, evolution of atmosphere and oceans, evolution of life

Question 7

chemical fluxes between living and non living invovle storage and transfer between reservoirs

Answer 7

biogeochemical cycles

Question 8

types of biogeochemical cycles

Answer 8

hyrdologic cycle, carbon cycle

Question 9

water moves between biological and physical reservoirs

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hydrologic cycle

Question 10

Plants and humans inverse relationship that cycles through breathing process and absorption techniques

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the carbon cycle

Question 11

how is carbon stored?

Answer 11

through forests, limestones, and fossil fuels

Question 12

how is carbon returned to the atmosphere?

Answer 12

Buring fossil fuels, cutting down trees, humane breathing

Question 13

methods to study climate?

Answer 13

Paleoclimates and computer simulations

Question 14

investigation of past climate variation interpreted by datable earth materials that are climate sensitive

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paleoclimates

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aspects of paleoclimates

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stratigraphic record, fossil record, oxygen isotopes, growth rings on trees

Question 16

where is global warming occuring and why?

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places where volcanic gases can trap heat, rifting and expanding mid ocean ridges, increased volcanic activity, burning fossil fuels, and population growth

Question 17

sudden addition or remval of greenhouse gases can alter the climate

Answer 17

greenhouse effect

Question 18

List the types of short term climate changes

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large volcanic eruptions, variable ocean currents, variable green house gas concentration

Question 19

largest catestrophic event in history

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KT Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event

Question 20

How does plate tectonic tie in with Climate?

Answer 20

Change in position of the continents, volcanic gases trapping heat, Mountain building leads to increased weathering

Question 21

List Anthropogenic Changes

Answer 21

Increased population, deforestation (carbon based), Pollution, acidification, radioactive, global warming

Question 22

Why is population increase not necessarily good?

Answer 22

Humans used more resources than they need which burns more carbon and makes the world warmer, promoting global warming

Question 23

Name ways that humans pollute the environment?

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smog, fuel and oil, acid rain

Question 24

How is global warming increasing?

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Human green house gases, industrial revolution used carbon, more cars

Question 25

3 evident of global warming

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glacial retreat, more intense hurricanes, rising sea levels