Soc Sci S1 Dates/Numbers

Question 1

When the world entered a new era ; the start of the Anthropocene

Answer 1

1950

Question 2

In _______, humans use of fossil fuels has accelerated the Earth’s natural carbon cycle

Answer 2

The past couple of centuries

Question 3

When cooler temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere was identified

Answer 3

late 1600s - early 1700s

Question 4

Intervals in which the Earth completes different cycles

Answer 4

100,000 years, 41,000 years, and 26,000 years

Question 5

Ice core from an old glacier can reveal what the conditions of the atmosphere were dating as far back as ______

Answer 5

hundreds of thousands of years

Question 6

Conditions over how many years can human records describe

Answer 6

past hundreds or thousands of years

Question 7

When the thermometer was invented

Answer 7

1700

Question 8

When was Phoenix, Arizona on the news for record-breaking heat

Answer 8

summer of 2023

Question 9

Temperature records for the city of Phoenix only date back to the year

Answer 9

1896

Question 10

How long ago can instrumental records clearly show trends in climate

Answer 10

a little more than a century

Question 11

When Christian Pfister was born

Answer 11

1944

Question 12

Starting around when did people extract and released fossil fuels

Answer 12

about 200 years ago and increasingly since

Question 13

When did the Holocene epoch start

Answer 13

11.7 thousand years ago

Question 14

When did the Pleistocene epoch start

Answer 14

2.58 million years ago

Question 15

When did the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) proposed that the Anthropocene should officially be recognized as a new geological time interval

Answer 15

2019

Question 16

When did the International Union of Geological Sciences reject a proposal to formally name the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch

Answer 16

March of 2024

Question 17

Around when was it advocated by the AWG that the Holocene ended and the Anthropocene began

Answer 17

the mid-20th century, around 1950

Question 18

Since when have modern historical profession become formalized in Europe

Answer 18

1800s

Question 19

Until around when did historians not include climate in their narratives of global history

Answer 19

2000

Question 20

Before how many decades was the climate not included in traditional histories of the world

Answer 20

2 1/2 decades

Question 21

To when does the chronological scale of human histories date back

Answer 21

5 or 6 thousand years ago

Question 22

Scholars use archeological evidence to create historical accounts of what human life was like as far as how many years ago

Answer 22

40,000 years ago

Question 23

Historical studies focus on human events in more recent past, such as what century

Answer 23

20th century

Question 24

Rachel Carson birth years

Answer 24

1907-64

Question 25

When was “Silent Spring” written

Answer 25

1962