Ozone
Chemical that can be used for cooling refrigerators and air conditioners.
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
A commitment by 24 nations to reduce CFC production by 50 percent by the year 2000
What is the Montreal Protocol?
Allows for water to hold a ton of heat before it moves up one degree in temperature.
What is specific heat?
A process in which an increase in ocean CO2 causes more CO2 to be converted to carbonic acid, which lowers the pH of the water
What is Ocean Acidification?
Absorption of infrared radiation by atmospheric gases and re-radiation of the energy back toward Earth.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Greenhouse gas that doesn't contribute significantly to climate change?
What is water vapor?
An estimate of how much a molecule of any compound can contribute to global warming over a period of 100 years relative to one molecule of CO2.
What is Greenhouse warming potential (GWP)?
Good ozone is found in the...
What is the Stratosphere?
Ocean Acidification, changes in currents and weather patterns, changes in local climate, changes in species distribution.
What is effects of ocean warming?
A side effect of ocean acidification that results in the death of polyps.
What is coral bleaching?
A type of global change that is focused on changes in the average weather that occurs in an area over a period of years or decades.
What is Climate Change?
What is a global warming potential.
This chemical interacts with ozone formation and prevents it from continuously happening.
What is chlorine?
Bad ozone is found in the.... because of this process...
What is the troposphere because of photochemical smog?
Controls the solubility of CO2 in water
What is temperature?
pH of ocean is lowered, calcium carbonate levels could become depleated, carbon cycle could be interupted.
What is potential consequences of ocean acidification?
Change that occurs in the chemical, biological, and physical properties of the planet
What is Global Change?
Heavy aquatic pollution, increased water temps, too much sunlight, super low tides, changes in ocean chemistry
What is reasons why corals expel their zooanthellae?
Chemicals that originally replaced CFCs but are now being phased out.
What is HFCs and HCFCs?
What is UV-C and UV-B?
The 5 factors that control temperature and CO2 absoprtion by the ocean
used to create the shells and skeleton structures of most marine creatures; less is in the water as a result of rising pH.
What is calcium carbonate?
CO2, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide, CFCs
What are principal greenhouse gases>
A way scientists can measure CO2 levels from the past.
What is ice cores?
Process of the formation of ozone
What is oxygen molecules interacting with solar radiation and splitting into free-floating molecules, then combining with other O2 molecules to make O3.
What is the chemical formula of ozone formation?
Controls how much albedo the earth's surface has. More of this means more albedo, less heat. Less means less albedo, more heat.
What is ice cover?
As more and more CO2 is dissolved, the pH balance of the ocean is changed because this system is thrown out of balance.
What is the Ocean's Carbonate system?
The melting of ice/decreasing of ice cover reduces albedo, which causes more ice to melt, which causes more heat to be absored due to reduction of albedo. What do we call this?
What is a feedback loop?
The symbiotic algae that lives in corals and gives them their food, energy, and color.
What is zooanthellae?