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What does ESS stand for?
Earth System Science
What is the other name for the geosphere?
The Lithosphere
What are the 4 earth subsystems
Biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere
What do scientists in the field of climate and society do?
They focus on the relationship between climate history and human history
What is the Last Glacial Maximum
when much of the world was covered in ice and Asia experienced permafrost
What caused the Little Ice Age
Solar minima, times with less solar activity and more volcano activity
What movie won the best animated motion picture?
Flow
What are the two types or achieves
Archieves of nature or Society
What are forcings?
How long is a geological time scale?
millions to billions of years
Name the movie
"You Either Die a Hero or Live Long Enough to Become the Villian"
The Dark Night (Best Batman Movie)
Whoever buzzed first gets the points!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAYYYY
How do positive and negative cycles affect climate change?
Positive cycles move climate further away from baseline
Negative cycles move climate back to baseline
What is the highest pairing in harry potter?
Draco Malfoy x Harry Potter
Whos my top artiest (also the best one)?
Beabadoobee
The idea that current climate conditions have been heavily influenced by human actions, starting in the 1950s
What are the three phases of the Holocene and their years?
Early Holocene 11,700-8236 years ago
Middle Holocene 8,236-4,250 years ago
Late Holocene 4,250-the present
Why was the year 536 the worst year to be alive?
volcanic eruptions caused the "year without the summer"
why is the Holocene important to human development and how many years ago did it start
It was an interglacial period, letting humans survive in a suitable environment and started around 12,000 years ago
Who had the best speech?
Matthew Jung
What period of European history coincides with the Little Ice Age?
The Dark Ages
What are the Milankovitch cycles (bonus for getting all the years)
at intervals of around 100,000, 41,000, and 26,000 years earth complete cycles that affect levels of solar energy hitting the earth.
What are three gases that cause the greenhouse effect?
Water vapor, Carbon Dioxide, and Methane
Exoshere
thermoshere
mesoshere
stratoshere
troposhere
What marked the beginning of the middle Holocene
The collapse of the glacial Laurentide Ice Sheet in Canada