OCC Social Science Flashcards

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What scientific term BEST describes the environmental effects of climate change?

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Feedback

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2
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What is generally not found in archives?

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Climate records

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What do scholars need to conduct a historical investigation?

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Sources

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The cryosphere is part of the

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Hydrosphere

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What atmospheric layer is CLOSEST to the Earth’s surface

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Troposphere

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In which direction does positive feedback move?

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Always in the same direction as forcing.

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Certain gases cause the greenhouse gas effect because they are

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Reflective

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Which external energy source is MOST vital to Earth

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Solar

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What is the difference between an archive of
society and an archive of nature?

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Archive of society holds written information, while archive of nature holds information from nature.

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The tipping point of climate change is the point at which it reaches?

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The Point of No Return.

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Describe an example of an Archive of Society

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A collection of wolf population records

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12
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What subsystem does climate NOT influence?

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Weather

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The term ‘lithosphere’ incorporates the Greek word for

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stone

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What natural cycle has faced rapid acceleration from the use of fossil fuels?

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water

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What scientific approach views the Earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere as a single structure?

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earth system science

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A meteorological rocket would MOST likely be found in the

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mesosphere

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To which of the subsystems would a fossilized human being belong?

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What aspect of climate change involving water does not focus on the hydrosphere?

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air moisture depletion

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Scientists label feedbacks as

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positive and negative

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What effect of warmer temperatures occurs around the North Pole?

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Ice on the Ocean’s surface melts.

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Which term refers to factors that influence climate change?

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What event is considered positive feedback?

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Ice melting in the North Pole.

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What relationship occurs between solar energy and ice or ocean water on the ocean surface?

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Ice reflects; ocean water absorbs.

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A common characteristic of historians, social scientists, and scientists is their…

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specialization

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What are forcings
Specific causes of climate change
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What are natural features that show signs of being affected by climate?
Proxies
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The creation of a new scholarly field often begins with...
the development of new methods of analyzing evidence.
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How would you describe ice core sampling?
The examining rings of ice in the Arctic
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Climate over time is BEST described as
Volatile
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What is the furthest time period an ice core from an old glacier can effectively study?
Hundreds of thousands of years ago
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Findings about climate history often...
don't perfectly align with across fields of study.
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How does historical climatology differ from paleoclimatology?
They are basically different names for the same field.
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