What is abnormally acidic rain, snow, or fog resulting from high levels of the oxides of sulfur and nitrogen in the air. Serious in D climates.
100
Natural Climate change primarily occurs without human influence and was greatly affected by the _______________ that began in the mid-1700s?
What is The Industrial Revolution?
100
Anthropogenic Climate Change?
What is the term used to separate human-caused and natural climate change?
100
It is the study of plants and animals.
What is Biogeography?
100
Metallic ores and petroleum, which when consumed at a certain rate will ultimately be used up and are known as ____________ ____________ _____________.
What are Nonrenewable Resources?
200
At the surface, acidity and alkalinity are measured by this, which ranges from 14 to 0?
What is the pH scale.
200
A long period from about 1400 to 1850, where mountain glaciers grew and in Europe there were numerous crop failures is known as the __________ _______ _______.
What is the Little Ice Age?
200
Collectively known as ___________ ___________, some scenarios show a present-day climate so dissimilar from climates found anywhere in the late 21st-century.
What is Disappearing Climates?
200
This refers to the variety of living organisms.
What is Biodiversity?
200
Factors influencing soil formation - often referred to as CLORPT.
What is Climate, Organisms, Relief, Parent material, and Time?
300
A severe climatic sub-group of the D climate that lie toward the arctic where summer radiation cannot raise the temperatures above 71.6 degrees F.
What is the taiga?
300
The period from AD 900 to 1200 was somewhat warmer than the years before and after this time period.
What is the Medieval Climatic Anomaly?
300
A general term used to indicate the observed temperature changes over the last 150 years, the extent to which humans might be responsible.
What is Global Warming?
300
The idea of ___________________ took hold in the aftermath of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and entails careful management and use of natural resources.
What is Conservation?
300
Soil horizons or layers of soil which change color and texture with depth is known as a ___________ ____________ and are identified by O, A, E, B, C, and R designations.
What is a soil profile?
400
An outstanding feature of highland climates (H) is their distinct ______________ according to altitude, best exemplified by the Andes Mountains of South America.
What is Vertical Zonation
400
This negative feedback acts on roughly a 100,000 year scale and could be considered the Earth's HVAC system.
What is the carbon dioxide-weathering feedback?
400
Powerful computer programs that simulate the Earth system in all three dimensions. They use conservation principles and other physical laws to calculate the motions and state of the atmosphere and oceans for the entire globe.
What are General Circulation Models (GCMs)?
400
The _____________ ____________ ________ is comprised of several pools including rocks, the atmosphere, soils, terrestrial biomass, and the oceans in which carbon is stored.
What is the Global Carbon Cycle?
400
The notion that helps soil geographers comprehend spatial patterns of soil formation.
What are Soil Regimes?
500
The Severe midlatitude (microthermal) climate corresponds to the _____________ _______________ of vertical climatic zonation and lies between 12,000 and 16,000 feet above sea-level.
What is Tierra Helada?
500
Identified by the repeated advance and retreat of land ice.
What is the Glacial/Interglacial cycle?
500
The average increase of the "freeze-up" date in rivers and lakes.
What is 5.8 days per century?
500
Plants take up almost one-sixth of the carbon in the atmosphere each year through the process known as?
What is photosynthesis?
500
The movement of dissolved and suspended particles from one layer to another within the soil.