SS Section 3

Question 1

What two words make up Anthropocene

Answer 1

Anthropos and Kainós

Question 2

Anthropos

Answer 2

Human

Question 3

Kainós

Answer 3

new

Question 4

What is plutonium-239

Answer 4

An artificial element

Question 5

Where can plutonium-239 now be found

Answer 5

sediment core sample (keep in mind it is an ARTIFICAL ELEMENT)

Question 6

Why is plutonium-239 in sediment core samples

Answer 6

Nuclear weapons testing from 1950

Question 7

Who were the first to use the term ANthropocene

Answer 7

Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer

Question 8

When was the term Anthropocene first used

Answer 8

The year 2000

Question 9

What did Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer think about the term Anthropocene

Answer 9

It signifies a new chapter were that shows the “central role of mankind in geology and ecology”

Question 10

When did Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer suggest that the Anthropocene started

Answer 10

late 1700s which coincides with the steam engine becoming popular and the amount of greenhouse gases started to grow in the atmosphere

Question 11

What is the late 1700s commonly labeled

Answer 11

the beginning of the Industrial Revolution

Question 12

Great Acceleration

Answer 12

when many of the developments that began around
the start of the Industrial Revolution increased in
number.

Question 13

Ice ages

Answer 13

cycles
of cold periods

Question 14

Anthropogeneic

Answer 14

Human-related

Question 15

What has sent the Earth’s climate into warming instead of cooling

Answer 15

Anthropogenic causes

Question 16

Charles Dickens

Answer 16

A British writer that popularized the modern think process about the industrial revolution; large, fiery factories fueled by coal
and lines of workers standing in front of machines,
covered in dust

Question 17

Why is the start of the Anthropocene at 1950 and not at the 1800s

Answer 17

Because the size of the emissions grew exponentially at the 1950 not the 1800s

Question 18

Who labeled the increase in greenhouse gases starting in 1950

Answer 18

J.R. McNeill

Question 19

What did J.R. McNeill call the increase in greenhouse gases starting in 1950

Answer 19

the “Great Accleration”

Question 20

What was a key factor of the Great Acceleration according to J.R. McNeill

Answer 20

The rise in the global human population

Question 21

What was the human population at 1780, the start of the Industrial revoultion

Answer 21

less than a billion

Question 22

What was the human population in 1930

Answer 22

2 billion

Question 23

What is the current population

Answer 23

8 billion

Question 24

How much the population increase from 1930 to the present

Answer 24

the population quadrupled from 1930 to the present

Question 25

Do rising carbon dioxide levels effect all of the levels of the atmosphere in the same way

Answer 25

No