Internal vs External Systems
Human Lifestyles
Ocean and Climate
Vocab
100
This is the external source of heat for Earth.
What is the sun?
100
This has caused an unnatural increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
What is human activity such as burning of fossil fuels and deforestation?
100
Places that store more carbon than they release into the atmosphere are known as this.
What is carbon sink?
100
This is a natural resource that is used at a slow enough rate that it replenishes itself faster than it is used up.
What is renewable resource?
200
Ash from a volcano has this impact on global temperatures?
What is cooling effect?
200
Due to human activity, this has increased in the atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
200
The heat absorbed by the ocean has this impact on the ice shelves and glaciers.
What is melting?
200
This is a natural resource that is used at a rate in which it is used up faster than it can be replenished.
What is nonrenewable resource?
300
The cryosphere has this impact on global temperatures.
What is a cooling effect? (because it reflects UV radiation instead of absorbs it)
300
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle is the preferred order in managing waste. (True or False)
What is true?
300
Because the ocean absorbs approximately 25% of the atmosphere's carbon, it has this effect on earth's warming impact.
What is reduces it?
300
These type of gases trap in the sun’s heat found in the lower atmosphere. Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, etc.
What are greenhouse gases?
400
The geosphere, or land system, has this impact on global temperatures.
What is warming impact? (because it absorbs solar radiation)
400
The increase of what in this graph leads to the increase of fossil fuel use in Florida.
What is number of residents OR population size?
400
This causes sea level to rise.
What is glacier ice sheet melting AND/OR expansion of water molecules due to warming oceans?
400
This part of Earth’s system that is made up of frozen water.
What is the cryosphere?
500
The system/sphere that absorbs approximately 25% of the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is hydrosphere?
500
These are the 3 R's of sustainability that relate to waste management in the order of preference.
What are reduce, reuse, recycle?
500
This is one of the two possible flags that could be posted due to rip currents AND this would be the recommendation made by lifeguards. DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What are high hazard or water closed AND to stay out of the water?
500
This word means using resources from the environment at a slower rate than they are replenished.
What is sustainability?