History

Question 1

Who began systematic record keeping of atmosphere carbon dioxide concetration?

Answer 1

Charles David Keeling

Question 2

This women’s right advocate recognized CO2 would impact the envrionment

Answer 2

Eunice Newton Foote

Question 3

Who proposed the Green New Deal in 2022?

Answer 3

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Question 4

Who worked to address the problem of climate change, founding a movement known as “Fridays for Future”?

Answer 4

Greta Thunburg

Question 5

Who popularized the idea of the “Great Acceleration”?

Answer 5

J.R. McNeill

Question 6

This indigenous activist is famous for defending Brazilian rainforests

Answer 6

Alessandra Korap Munduruku

Question 7

This period from around 1300 to 1850 experienced global cooling

Answer 7

Little Ice Age

Question 8

This development in the 18th century expanded manufacturing

Answer 8

Industrial Revolution

Question 9

This geological interglacial period began around 11,700 years ago

Answer 9

The Holocene

Question 10

This geological epoch around 2.58 mya was defined by cycles of ice ages

Answer 10

Pleistocene

Question 11

This new geological epoch was proposed because of human changes to earth

Answer 11

Anthropocene

Question 12

This US government agency leads in space exploration and the study of the earth

Answer 12

NASA (national aeronautic space agency)

Question 13

This one scientific approach studies the natural world as a conjected whole

Answer 13

ESS

Question 14

This intergovernmental organization was founded in 1945 in the wake of worldwar II

Answer 14

United Nations (UN)

Question 15

This 1987 program studied global change in the context of earth system science

Answer 15

International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)

Question 16

1992 framework foundation for international action on climate change

Answer 16

UNFCCC

Question 17

Term describes scope of an investigation

Answer 17

Scale

Question 18

This era consists of decreased sunspot activity that follows an eleven-year cycle

Answer 18

Solar minima

Question 19

This community describes a group of scholars who share an object of study

Answer 19

Scientific field

Question 20

This classification within the earth system consists of the sphere terms

Answer 20

Subsystems

Question 21

This form of green energy dervies power from the sun

Answer 21

Solar energy