The day-to-day variation in temperature, air pressure, wind, humidity, and precipitation
What is the weather?
100
“The age of mammals”
What is the Cenozoic Era?
100
The transfer of heat by molecules
What is conduction?
100
Name of a lake located in Alaska (as seen in video)
What is Lake Toolik?
200
Chief scientist in the Obama administration and leading climate change scientist who described the three stages of climate change skeptics
Who is John Holdren?
200
A collection of gases held by gravity around the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
200
historical rapid additional warming due to a release of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
What is the PETM?
200
An air mass that originates in the Arctic and North Antarctic and brings freezing temperatures
What is continental polar?
200
Meeting In Japan in 1997 to craft a binding agreement on reducing emissions
What is Kyoto or the Kyoto Protocol?
300
“In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities…”
What is the first precautionary principle?
300
The lowest level that ranges from 5 to 10 miles thick and contains almost all the water vapor and clouds
What is the troposphere?
300
Paleontologist who has been digging for early-Cenozoic fossils in the Bighorn Basin
Who is Scott Wing?
300
When a cold air front overtakes a warm front
What is a cold front?
300
Three examples of adaptation strategies
What are seawalls, reservoirs, and revegetation of coasts?
400
Committee that greed to stabilize GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2000 in all industrialized nations
What is the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)?
400
A combination of rising warm air and sinking cool air
What is a Hadley cell?
400
When gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and ozone keep the earth warm by trapping energy from the sun
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
A climate zone in the Northern hemisphere with hot summers and cold winters
What is a cold snowy forest?
400
the deliberate large-scale manipulation of an environmental process that affects the earth's climate, in an attempt to counteract the effects of global warming.
What is geo-engineering?
500
Anticipating harm and planning adaptive responses in order to decrease vulnerability
What is adaptation?
500
Rivers of air created higher in the troposphere from Earth’s rotation and air-pressure gradients
What is a jet stream?
500
how long the PETM lasted
What is 150,000 years?
500
deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere