Quartenary

Question 1

What is the quartenary period characterised by?

Answer 1

Votality and decreasing temperature

Question 2

What are the three things that humans can find out while studying the quartenary period?

Answer 2

Hazards, archaeology, climate

Question 3

What are the three parts of the quartenary period?

Answer 3

Oribital forcing .1
Global warming - decadal - 21st century
Abrupt Climate change - .2 - sub-millenial

Question 4

What were milankovitch’s three discoveries?

Answer 4

Eccentricity Variations, Tilt of earths axis, Procession of equinoxes

Question 5

How do people test o16 conc levels in the ocean over time?

Answer 5

Foraminfera

Question 6

When is the marine isotope stage?

Answer 6

Holocene

Question 7

What is a pacemaker for change?

Answer 7

orbital forcing

Question 8

What are the other alternatives to climate chnage today ?

Answer 8

Solar variability and Volcanic cooling

Question 9

What are the other alternatives to climate change today ?

Answer 9

Solar variability and Volcanic cooling

Question 10

When was the medieval warm period

Answer 10

800 - 1200