Degree
Vocab
Ozone
Greenhouse effect
All
100
In the First Degree how many homes will be flooded?
What is 10,000
100
What is the average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time?
What is Climate
100
what is one of the main greenhouse gases that destroy the ozone?
What is CfCs
100
What are the major greenhouse gases?
What is Water vapor, Carbon dioxide, CFCs, Methane, and Nitrous oxide
100
what stadium can be filled up by the falling ice sheets of Greenland?
What is Mets stadium
200
In the Third degree how high will the seas level rise too?
What is 3 or 4 ft
200
What is the distance north or south from the equator and is expressed in degrees?
What is Latitude
200
What single celled organisms can be killed by UV light due to ozone layer
What is phytoplankton
200
The process of heat absorption is called?
What is greenhouse effect
200
What is the warm phase of the El Nino- Southern Oscillation?
What is El Nino
300
In the Fifth degree which entire artic sheet will disappear?
What is West
300
What are hydrocarbons in which some or all of the hydrogen atoms are replaced be chlorine and fluorine?
What is Chlorofluorocarbons
300
On what surface are the products of CfCs converted to molecular chlorine?
What is Polar stratospheric clouds
300
in 1985 a geochemist installed an instrument at the top of a tower on the volcano Mauna Loa what was his name?
What is Charles Keeling
300
What happens to the CFCs molecules when they are high in stratosphere?
What is they break apart
400
In the third degree what mountain snow caps will disappear
What is the Hemalayas
400
What is a thinning of stratospheric ozone that occurs over the poles during the spring
What is Ozone hole
400
In what year was the Montreal protocol made?
What is 1987
400
What was keelings first measurement in March 1958
What is 0,0314%
400
Carbon dioxide has gone from 314 to 386 parts per million, an increase of 54 parts per million. the increase is due too?
What is Burning of fossil fuels
500
In the six degree what is it called when natural disasters become common events?
What is the doomsday scenerio
500
What is the international treaty accorfing to which developed countries that signed the treaty agree to reduce their emission of carbon dioxide and other gases that may contribute to global warming by the year 2012
What is Kyoto Protocol
500
in 1992 a conference was held which made developed countries agree to eliminate cfc's by 1995. where was this conference located?
What is Copenhagen, Denmark
500
If global temperature increased the amount of ice and anow at the poles would?
What is Decrease
500
in the winter dying grass and fallen leaves release?
What is carbon
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