Climate and Earth Systems
People that have to move due to the change in sea level.
What are Climate Migrants?
The number of oxygen atoms in a water molecule.
What is One?
The electrical charge on an electron.
What is negative?
The ability to reflect the suns energy.
What is albedo?
The first step in completing a CER?
What is "ask the question"
The two Earth systems that are most directly impacted by slash and burn agriculture.
What are the lithosphere and the biosphere?
The amount of energy required to raise one gram one degree Celsius.
What is specific heat?
The three subatomic particles that make up an atom.
What are proton, neutron and electron?
When there is an increase in absorbed Sun's energy, there is an increase in glacier melting which then leads to an increase in temperature and a reduction in albedo. This is an example of what type of feedback loop?
What is positive?
The number of significant figures in the final answer for 2.6589 x 6.347 x 12,000
What is 2?
A subcategory of the hydrosphere that contains all of the frozen water.
What is the cryosphere?
The polarity in water makes it excellent at dissolving substances. Water is therefor known as the universal ________________.
What is solvent?
Hydrogen has this type of charge when bonded to Oxygen in a water molecule.
What is partial positive?
Gases that trap the Sun's energy and lead to warming of the Earth are called _______________________.
What are greenhouse gases
The variable that the scientist changes, graphed on the x-axis.
What is the independent variable?
In the early 1800's humans began burning fossil fuels which resulted in a significant increase in this greenhouse gas.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The tendency of water to stick to other surfaces.
What is adhesion?
What is hydrogen bond?
Ice cores help to give clues to the past environment because they trap these two gases.
What are Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide?
The number of digits that contribute to the accuracy of the value.
What are significant figures?
The three Milankovitch Cycles.
What are Obliquity, eccentricity, and precession?
This characteristic allows some bugs to be able to run across the surface of water.
What is surface tension?
The type of bond that holds together oxygen and hydrogen in an atom.
What is polar covalent?
Preserved physical characteristics of the past that stand in for direct meteorological measurements.
What is proxy data?
789,000,000 written in scientific notation.
What is 7.89 x 108