Climate
What is weather?
It's the condition of Earth atmosphere at a particular time and place.
They are the process that emit carbon into the atmosphere.
How does greenhouse gases effect temperatures?
It does because it causes global warming.
What was El nino years?
Ocean temperatures are higher than usual in the tropical pacific ocean.
What is the greenhouse effect?
It's the process by which gases in the atmosphere absorb and radiate energy as heat back to earth
What is climate?
It describes weather condition in an area over along period of time.
What's a carbon sink?
The process that removes carbon from the atmosphere.
What are ice ages?
They are changes in earth's orbit, shifts in the balance of incoming and outgoing solar radiation.
La Nino is what?
Ocean temperatures are cooler than normal in equatorial eastern pacific ocean.
What else does the greenhouse effect cause.
Global warming
How many climate zones are there?
There are 3 climate zones.
How are 2 ways that humans release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?
By Burning fossil fuels and deforestation.
What is a sunspot?
A sunspot are dark areas that appear and disappear.
What is the geological record?
It shows that at different times earths climate has been both colder and warmer.
What does greenhouse gases include?
They include carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and nitrous oxide.
What are the 2 main ways humans release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?
Burning fossil fuels and deforsation.
What is deforestation?
It's the mass removal of trees.