Ozone
Ozone depleting chemical in hairspray and refridgerators
What is CFCs?
Determines how much sunlight is reflected or absorbed by a surface
What is surface albedo?
List 5 consequences of climate change
What are sea level rise, atmospheric temperature, extreme climate, drought, permafrost melting, habitat loss, etc.
2 main causes of sea level rise
What are thermal expansion and glacial melt?
The percent of heat the oceans have absorbed
What is 90%?
Human health risks of depleted ozone layer
What are skin cancer and cataracts?
One benefit of the greenhouse effect
What is temperature regulation?
2 of the 3 sources for historical climate data
What are fossil record (foraminifera), gases in ice cores, and oxygen isotope concentrations?
What sea organisms are most impacted by ocean acidification?
What are reefs, mollusks, urchins, and crabs?
Draw the positive feedback loop for melting sea ice
What is heat=> melting ice => lower albedo => higher absorption of heat =>
The only agreement with universal ratification in history
What is the Montreal Protocol?
Name 3 of the 4 main greenhouse gases
What are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and CFCs/HCFCs?
The region of Earth heating the fastest
What is the arctic? (North pole)
The cause of coral bleaching
What is algae leaving due to warming or pollution, causing the coral to starve?
Circulation current of heat and salt in the ocean
What is the Thermohaline Current?
The number of ozone molecules one CFC can break down
What is 100,000?
The greenhouse gas with a GWP of 1
What is carbon dioxide?
2 air current patterns that are being interrupted by global warming
What are the jet stream and hadley cells?
3 effects of ocean warming on ocean organisms
What are respiratory stress/suffocation, altered migratory routes, habitat loss, reproductive timing, algal blooms?
3 human impacts of sea level rise
What are flooding, relocation, salt water intrusion, and loss of farm land?
Replacement order of CFC chemicals in products from worst to best.
What is CFC, HCFC, HFC, HFO?
2 factors that determine Global Warming potential
What are residence time and IR absorption?
The cause for NATURAL variations in global climate
What are eccentricity and obliquity? (Or Milankovitch Cycles)
The chemical equation for ocean acidifcation
CO2 + H2O => H2CO3 => H+ + HCO3-
The decrease in ocean pH
What is 8.2 to 8.1 or 30%?