Natural Factors That Causes Climate Change

Question 1

What is the Milankovitch cycle

Answer 1

influences the earth’s climate by changing how much solar energy reaches the earth

Question 2

Explain how precession effects climate change

Answer 2

•earth wobbles like a spinning top
•on a 26,000 year cycle
•some areas receive more sunlight then other areas
• fluctuates between 41.5 and 44.5
• earths water levels can change the wobble ratio by a few centimetres
• increase in sea level rise would change wobble ratio would wobble west- change the climate

Question 3

How does eccentricity effect climate change

Answer 3

•Earth rotates on a 940 million kilometer orbit around the earth
•A complete orbit takes 365 days
• When elliptical the earth is further away of the sun so it would receive less sunlight glacial period
• when circular the earth is closer to the sun so it would receive more sunlight interglacial period
• takes 100,000 years