Climate Characteristics
The amount of time used for climate averages (temperature & precipitation)
What is 30 years?
Human-caused climate change are primarily due to the emission of greenhouse gases, which do this.
What is trap heat?
Sea Levels do this as evidence of climate change
What is Increase?
The melting of sea ice is causing a lack of food and habitat for this threatened species of animal.
What are polar bears?
Building a sea wall, sand dunes, and reservoirs are all examples of this strategy type
What are adaptation strategies?
What is moderate?
Volcanoes initially have this effect on the global climate.
What is global cooling?
Ice Sheets do this as evidence of climate change
What is Decrease?
Pictures of mountains devoid of snow are evidence of this climate change effect.
What is Melting Alpine Glaciers?
Keeping Earth warm, blocking harmful radiation, and allowing visible light for photosynthesis
What are the 3 functions of Earth?
The expected climate of a location far from the equator.
What is cold?
The snow mounds still exist and thaw from the bottom up primarily due to this reflective property.
What is albedo?
Carbon Dioxide do this as evidence of climate change
What is Increase
One effect of climate change is the changing of weather patterns, which become stronger and this.
What is longer lasting?
Oxygen, Argon, Nitrogen are examples of these types of gases.
What are permanent gases?
Locations in higher elevations would expect to have this climate characteristic
What is a colder temperature?
Obliquity (changes in axial tilt), Eccentricity (changes in orbital shape), and Precession (Earth's wobble) are collectively known as this.
What are the Milankovic cycles?
Ocean Temperatures do this as evidence of climate change
What is Increase?
Increased carbon dioxide absorption and warmer ocean water is causing this whitening effect.
What is coral bleaching?
Weather occurs in this atmospheric layer
What is the troposphere?
Although both are coastal cities, Bayonne has a more extreme temperature pattern throughout the year than San Francisco, due to this characteristic.
What is a warm ocean current?
The time period of sunspot cycles
What is 11 years?
The relationship between temperature and carbon dioxide
What is Directly related?
Climates in western Europe and other parts of the world would be greatly impacted if this phenomenon, which causes the Gulf Stream, would go away.
What is the Ocean Conveyor Belt?
The law designed to set limits on factories emitting GHGs while allowing to sell some of their excess.
What is Cap and Trade?