HW 11 Chpt 15

Question 1

Climate change is an example of a stealth disaster, because

Answer 1

the consequences of climate change are developing slowly, are difficult to detect, and are easily dismissed.

Question 2

What refers to the conditions of the atmosphere (temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, wind speed, cloud cover, precipitation) at a given location at a given time?

Answer 2

Weather

Question 3

What describes the average weather conditions, and range of those conditions, at a given location, over the course of years and decades?

Answer 3

Climate

Question 4

Paleoclimate (ancient climate) can be determined by which of the following?

Answer 4

All of these

Question 5

Human population and _____________ are both rapidly increasing at parallel rates.

Answer 5

carbon dioxide emissions

Question 6

Carbon dioxide and what are increasing due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases?

Answer 6

methane

Question 7

Recent climate change is causing ocean temperature to rise and ocean pH to _______.

Answer 7

lower

Question 8

Since climate change is a global problem, many nations have agreed in principle to expend efforts in an attempt to slow global warming and climate change. The agreements are known as

Answer 8

the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 and the Paris AGREEMENT of 2015.