Long-Term Cycles
The warm periods that occur during ice ages.
What are interglacials?
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Includes regular changes in temperature and the number of hours of day and night.
What are seasonal changes?
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The long-term average weather conditions that occur in a particular region.
What is climate?
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The rise in Earths adverage temperature during the past 100 years.
What is global warming?
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A set of complex equations used to predict future climates.
What is the Global Climate Model?
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Cold periods lasting millions of years, when glaciers cover much of the Earth.
What are ice ages?
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Tilted away from the sun so the sun's rays strike Earth's surface at a lower.
What is the southern hemisphere?
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Increases from 0o to 90o as you move toward the North Pole or South Pole.
What is Latitude?
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A international organization created to study global warming.
What is the intergovernmental panel on climate change?
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Expected to completely dissaper.
What is Summmer Artic sea ice?
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Lasting from 1250 to about 1850, it was a period of bitterly cold temperatures.
What is the Little Ice Age?
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Marks the beginning of summer and winter.
What are solstices?
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An area of low rainfall on the downwind slope of a mountain.
What are rain shadows?
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Gases in the atmosphere that absorb Earth's outgoing infrared radiation.
What are greenhouse gases?
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Earths population is expected to increase.
What is 9 billion?
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Changes in 41,000-year cycles.
What is Earth's axis?
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The combined ocean and atmospheric cycle that results in weakened trade winds across the Pacific Ocean.
What is El Niño/The Southern Oscillation?
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Different amounts of percipitation influences the types that grow.
What is vegetation?
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The large-scale cutting and/ or burning of forests.
What is Deforestation?
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Reduction of automobile emissions.
What is reduced by 35 percent?
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Earth's current interglacial period.
What is the Holocene Epoch?
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Worlds wettest location receives an average of 10 m of monsoon rainfall each year.
What is Cherrapunji, India?
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The amount(joules) of thermal energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of material by 1oc.
What is specific heat?
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Tiny liquid or solid particles.
What are aerosols?
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Reduces the amount of fuel requierd to manufacture materials.
What is recycling?
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