Soc Sci S1 Additional Vocab Flashcards
A new geological era in which humans have become the driving force in planetary change
Anthropocene ; pg. 5
Scholars and the public use this term to describe a complex process of changes in the natural world
climate change ; pg. 5
Refers to the design of greenhouses that capture heat from the Sun and are commonly used for agriculture
greenhouse gases ; pg. 8
Reactions to climate change caused by forcings
feedbacks ; pg. 8
The places that holds sources that were produced by humans and includes info about the climate
archives of society ; pg. 10
The place that holds sources from nature
archives of nature ; pg. 10
A technique that involves the drilling of long cylinders of ice out of deep glaciers
Ice core sampline ; pg. 10
The practoce of gathering information from trees
Dendrochronology ; pg. 11
A study of climate that relies primarily on the archives of nature
Climatology ; pg. 14
