Process by which radiation from the Sun in trapped by atmospheric gases.
What is the "Greenhouse Effect"?
100
A 2006 movie by former VP Al Gore concerning "Global Warming".
What is "An Inconvenient Truth"?
100
A diagram that displays the bonding between atoms of a molecule.
What is a "Lewis-Dot Structure"?
100
Definition of Anthropogenic influence.
What is "influence of human activities on the environment"?
100
Burning fossils fuels, CO2 in the atmosphere, bovine flatulence...
What are things: that contribute to global warming?
200
Major contributing Gas to the GE?
What is "CO2"?
200
Difference between "Global Warming" and "Climate Change".
"Global Warming": The long-term increase in global temp.
"Climate Change": Changes in Global Climate which can include rainfall, positive or negative temperature change.
200
True or False.
False.
200
Humanity's burning of them is directly linked to added CO2 in the atmosphere.
What are: "fossil fuels"?
200
Definition of climate mitigation.
What is: Any action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risks of climate change.
300
3 examples of Greenhouse gases:
What are: "CO2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, Ozone, etc."?
300
The two locations of the most dramatic effects of "global warming"?
What are the "poles"?
300
The molecular structure of CH4.
What is a "tetrahedron"?
300
The current largest emitter (country) of greenhouse gases.
What is "China"?
300
Two small changes that can help prevent individual contributions climate change.
What is: Becoming a hermit. Living in the woods. Keeping what you kill. Using animal bones to craft weapons and tools.
400
The percentage of radiation normally trapped by the Greenhouse Effect?
What is "80%"?
400
The meaning of the acronym of the organization IPCC?
What is the "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"?
400
Name of outer electrons that do not reside in bonding pairs.
What are: "lone pairs"?
400
Two long-term consequences of unchecked Climate change.
What are: Sea Ice Disappearance, Sea-Level Rise, More Extreme Weather, Loss of Biodiversity
400
Meaning of the acronym: CCS.
What is: "Carbon capture and Storage"?
500
The term to describe when MORE than 80% of radiation is trapped by Greenhouse Gases?
What is "Enhanced Greenhouse Effect"?
500
The global temperature variation (in degrees) from the last glacial maximum 20,000 years ago to now.
What is "10 degrees"?
500
Come to the board and draw a Lewis-Dot Structure for CH4, accounting for molecular shape.
Sucka.
500
A complex class of materials that can be released into the atmosphere through soot, smoke, or forest fires and have a likewise, complex effect on our climate.
What are: "Aerosols"?
500
The name of the international treaty signed in 1997, that set binding obligations on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.