Feedback Loops
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Negative FB Loops
Positive FB Loops
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A chain of events in which the initial action is decreased, reversed, or stopped by the resulting effects.
What is a negative feedback loop?
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This is the average weather of a place over a 30 year span.
What is climate?
200
When your body temperature increases, this happens to help reduce your body temperature.
What is sweating?
200
Positive feedback loops throw a system out of this
What is equilibrium?
200
This artist just won five Grammy Awards, including the "big four" - Best New Artist, Song, Record and Album of the Year. The only other time someone won the "big four" was 39 years ago in 1981.
Who is Billie Eilish?
200
The year Desert Pines High School opened.
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This shoe company was founded in 112 years ago. Their most popular style was first made 108 years ago and is still currently the 3rd most popular shoe in the world, and your teacher's favorite.
What is Converse?
Chuck Taylor (chucks) - More of this shoe style has been sold than any other shoe in history.
400
A chain of events in which the initial action is increased by the resulting effects.
What is a positive feedback loop?
400
This is the day to day changes in precipitation, temperature, wind speed, cloud cover, etc., of a certain location.
What is weather?
400
This is the result of this type of feedback loop if I initially enjoy drawing.
What is, I do not enjoy drawing?
400
The graph on which side is an example of a positive feedback loop. (left or right)
What is the left side?
400
This is the Billboard "Hot 100" #1 song right now.
What is "The Box" by Roddy Rich?
400
This is the minimum ACT score or GPA required into the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
What is 22 or 3.0?
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Final score of Superbowl LIV
What is 20-31?
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Often mistaken for a positive feedback loop, in this chain of events the initial action is not increased or decreased.
What is a cycle?
600
The main driver of weather on Earth.
What is the Sun?
600
Stars, Earth, and even your body are equipped with mechanisms that return each of them to a state of this.
What is equilibrium?
600
As sea ice decreases, sea levels increase, which causes albedo to decrease, causing Earth's temperatures to do this.
What is increase?
600
On the "Billboard 200", the #1 song and album features this artist, who died of a drug overdose on December 8, 2019.
Who is Juice WRLD (Jarad Anthony Higgins)?
600
This is the minimum GPA requirement needed in order to get into the College of Southern Nevada (CSN).
What is 2.0?
600
The percentage of people that say they are working their "dream job".
What is 20%?
800
In this type of feedback loop, temperatures rise, sea ice is melted, which allows the oceans to absorb more of the Sun's energy.
What is a positive feedback loop?
800
The main cause of unnatural climate change.
What is human (anthropogenic) activity, or pollution?
800
The term negative feedback "loop" is misleading because it does this before it can ever get back to the initial action.
What is it stops?
800
The term "positive" feedback loop is misleading because positive feedback loops are often this.
What is "bad" or "negative"?
800
In 2015, this musical duo became the first group in history to have every single song on an album receive a gold certification. They are also your teacher's favorite artist at the moment.
Who is "twenty øne piløts"?
800
This is the average ACT score.
What is 21?
800
The amount of people living paycheck to paycheck in the United States.
What is 263,560,000?
What is 4 out of 5?
What is 80%?
1000
In this type of feedback loop, increased greenhouse gasses increase temperatures, which results in an increase in evaporation and cloud cover.
What is a negative feedback loop?
1000
Using various methods, including ice cores, these type of scientists study weather and climate change.
Who are paleoclimatologists?
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As evaporation increases, this also increases, which leads to a negative feedback loop scenario.
What is cloud cover?
1000
As the amount of ice on Earth increases, this also increases, leading to a positive feedback loop scenario.
What is albedo?
1000
The two artists that paid tribute to Kobe Bryant by performing together during halftime of the Los Angeles Lakers game against the Portland Trailblazers on January 31, 2020.
Who is Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth?
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Those that do not graduate high school are automatically ineligible for this percentage of all possible occupations. (This is the percentage of jobs that REQUIRE a high school diploma).
What is 90%?!!!
1000
In this Oscar nominated movie, it is shown how "one bad day" can change a person's life.
What is Joker?