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Ice House To Greenhouse: Climate Change Flashcards

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What is carbon dating

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Using radioactive testing to find the age of rocks which contained living material

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What is erosion

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Waering away of the landscape

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What is an eon

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Basic unit of geological time where a type of rock system is formed

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What is an era

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Subdivsion of geological time divides an eon into smaller units

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What is an example of an eon

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The phanerozoic eon

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What era is the phanerozoic eon split into

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Paleozoic
Mesozoic
Cenozoic

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What is an epoch

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Longer than an age and shorter than a period

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What is geology

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Earth science
Study of solid rock
Rocks of which its composed.
Change the rock goes through

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What is glaciation

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A cold period of time where glaciers expanded widley

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What is strata

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Horizontal layers of rock

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What is a greenhouse earth

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No continental icesheets on earth due ti warmer tenperatures from higher concentration of greenhouse gases in atmosphere
Normal/ most common state

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What is ice house earth

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Ice sheets cover a large proportion of the land due to overall temperature of earth being lower than average

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13
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How many known ice house earths ahve there been

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At least 5

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What is a glacial period

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Cooler when ice advances

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What is an interglacial period

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Wamer when ice retreats

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What is the name the most recent ice age

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Quaternary ice age
Started 2.6million years ago to present day

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What are the two epochs of the quaternary

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Plesitocene lasted untill 10000 years ago
Holocene 10,000 years to present day

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How many glacial and interglacial cycles happened in the Pleistocene epoch

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50 cycles

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19
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What happened during the Pleistocene

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Glaciers reached their maximum extent

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20
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What is the last glacial extent know as

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Devensian

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When did the devensian occur

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18,000years ago

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What was rhe last glacial advance in the uk called

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Loch lomond stadial

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When did the loch lomond stadial occur

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12,000-10,000 yrs before present

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What has been linked to the start of the quaternary ice age

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Changing position of continents a result of plate tectonics
North and south american plates collided creating the panama isthmus

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What is an isthmus

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A thin stretch of land with oceans on both sides

26
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How were trade winds affected (creation of Panama isthmus)

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Wamr carribean waters that flowed through the gap between the americas were forced towards europe creating the gukd stream

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What did the formation of the gulf stream do

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Transported extra moisture into the arctic atmosphere this fell as snow triggering the build up of the greenland ice sheet

28
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When did Antarctica seperate from SA

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34 million years ago

29
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What was created when Antarctica seperated from SA

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The drake passage
Antarctica was completely surrounded by ocean

30
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What is the circupolar current

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Ocean currents isolating Antarctica from the warmth of global oceans

31
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Why is it cooler in Antarctica

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Oblique solar rays larger area receives a lesser concentration per M

32
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Why is it warmer near the equator

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Verticle rats so the solar rays are more concentrated per m

33
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What has happened to global temperatures on average

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They are increasing

34
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What is eccentricity

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Shape of earths orbit
Circular to elliptical
100,000year cycle

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When is there more solar radiation exposure for eccentricity (elliptical or circular)

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Elliptical

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What is the furthest point in earths orbit from the sun

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Aphelion

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What is the closest point in earths orbit to the sun

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Perihelion

38
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What is obliquity

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Tilt of earths axis during its orbit
Varies between 21.5 and 25.5
41,000yr cycle
Changes season severity

39
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What is the procession of equinoxs

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Wobble as earth spins
Season where earth experiences perihelion changes
Northern hemisphere winter at perihelion
21,000yr cycle
Affects seasonsl intensity

40
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What volcanic eruption occurred in april 1815

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Mt Toabora, indonesia

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What happened to temperatures the followng year after the Italian volcanic eruption

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Accounts of very cold weather documented globally

42
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What did scientists originally cuased the cooling after volcanic eruptions

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Ash emittied into the atmosphere was responsible for widespread cooling
However, measurments showed that most ash retured to surface within a few weeks/months

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What is the main contributer to volcanic colling

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Vast amount of sulphur dioxide gas injected into the atmosphere for upto three years

44
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How do sulphate aerosols cause net cooling

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They increase the reflection rate of solar radiation back into space cooling earths lower atmosphere

45
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What is the name for variations in solar outputs

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Sunspots

46
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What are sunspots

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Darker areas on the suns photosphere
Regions of reduced surface temperature

47
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What causes sunspots

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Cooncentrations of magnetic field flux that inhibits convection

48
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What do sunspots indicate

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The sun is more active releasing more thermal energy

49
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What is the maunder minumum

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Sun was observed to have very little solar spot activity at the end of the little ice age (1650-1750)

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