Encompasses all water, North and South poles, and the cryosphere
What is the Hydrosphere?
Large mounds of earth that connect to the mantle; emit large clouds and magma onto the crust.
What are Volcanoes?
This scholarly field follows the study of climate pre-1800's with a focus on Archives of Nature.
What is Historical Climatology/Paleoclimatology (both answers correct)?
These archives use natural methods of studying climate change.
What are Archives of Nature?
This epoch began around 1950 due to carbon emissions.
What is the Anthropocene?
Contains the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere
What is the Atmosphere
Main source of global warming, emitted into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and human activity.
What are Greenhouse Gasses?
What scholarly field did Christian Pfister pioneer?
What is Climate History?
This includes dendrochronology, and can show droughts and wet seasons.
What are Tree Rings?
This is the official epoch that Earth is in.
What is the Holocene.
DAILY DOUBLE!!! an alternate name for the geosphere
What is the Lithosphere
Feedback loop that causes the opposite reaction(Ex:Great Lake effect & Polar vortex)
What is Negative Feedback?
This scholarly field focuses on the study of pre-1800s climate using Archives of Society.
What is Climate History?
These archives are found in the South Pole, and can show atmospheric composition and volcanic eruptions.
What are Ice Cores?
This organization pushed for the official recognition of the Anthropocene.
What is the Anthropocene Working Group(AWG)?
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What is the Geosphere?
Feedback loop that increases effects (Ex: Melting ice caps)
What is Positive Feedback?
What Scholarly field did Dagomar Degroot push for?
What is The History of Climate and society(HCS)?
This archive dates back to the 1700s, and shows measurements of climate using specific tools.
What are Instrumental Records?
This is the theory that climate sets the course for human history.
What is Climate Determinism?
Includes all life, human activities, and diseases
What is the biosphere
Caused by Milankovitch cycles; can send Earth in and out of ice ages.
What is Solar Energy?
Wrote the book Silent Spring in 1962
Who is Rachel Carson?
This archive represents the economic change that comes with drought years(think plants), but is unreliable due to non-climate caused economic changes.
What are Grain Prices?
What is the Cenozoic Era?