Reason for the Seasons
True or False: The Earth Orbits the Sun on a path that is a perfect circle
What Is False
This is the Earth’s Ice
What is the Cryosphere?
These are the three fossil fuels
What are Coal, Oil and Natural Gas?
Heating Causes more Heating would be this kind of feedback loop?
What is a Positive Feedback Loop?
Microscopic solid or liquid particles suspended in the air, these are generally believed to have a cooling effect on the atmosphere.
What are aerosols?
Incoming Solar Radiation is greatest when the sun is in this position in the sky
What is directly overhead?
A process that removes Carbon from the Atmosphere
What is a Carbon Sink?
The burps of cows alone account for this much of total greenhouse gas emissions.
What is 3.7%?
This cycle, dealing with how tilted Earth's Axis is, lasts approximately 41,000 years.
What is Obliquity?
Oftentimes considered a "smoking gun" of climate change, this phenomena is caused by both ozone depletion and the trapping of heat in the troposphere by greenhouse gasses
What is Stratospheric cooling?
The solstice that we are quickly approaching here in the Northern Hemisphere
What is the Summer Solstice?
The time of year that Carbon Dioxide concentrations are highest
What is Fall/Winter?
The top Carbon Dioxide Emitter in 2016
What is China?
The Reason Antarctica is So Cold Now (but was much warmer 50 million years ago)
What is it's separation from South America?
The effect that aerosols themselves have on Earth's radiation budget
What is the Aerosol direct effect?
Temperatures change very little throughout the year in these latitudes.
What are tropical latitudes?
The amount of human-emitted carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere
What is 55%?
The primary purpose for deforestation
What is Cattle Farming?
While short enough to cause rapid climate change, this cycle is only responsible for as much as 0.03°C of Temperature Variation (from our textbook)
What is the Solar (Sunspot) Cycle?
Radiative forcings compare current observed values of Earth's radiation budget to the estimated values of this year.
What is 1750?
Approximately the month we (Earth) are closest to the Sun.
What is January?
Chemical Weathering and the burial of dead organic material both belong to this range of carbon cycles.
What are the Long Term Carbon Cycle?
The greenhouse gas that is emitted from the burps and farts of cows
What is Methane?
During a year where Polar Winters are Warmer and Polar Summers are Cooler, we can expect glaciers to do this.
What is Advance?
A forcing that has an uncertainty lying entirely on one side of zero (meaning either entirely positive or entirely negative)
What is statistically significant?