What is the current condition of the atmosphere including cloud cover, temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, and air pressure called?
What is Weather
100
The amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere during the last 2000 years has
What is Increased Continually
100
What is the overall trend for global temperature?
What is it is increasing.
100
What is the ultimate cause of the global warming trend?
What is Human Impacts
100
Which climate zone is the driest?
What is the Desert
200
What is the average weather pattern in an area over a long period of time?
What is Climate
200
List two greenhouse gases found in the atmosphere.
What is Methane and Carbon Dioxide
200
List a natural climatic event that affects the climate.
What is El Nino, Volcanoes, etc.
200
What does not contribute to global warming?
What is the Ozone Layer
200
Why wouldn't decreasing coastal water levels be a sign of global warming?
What is because if the glaciers are staying frozen then the temperature of the earth is not experience global warming
300
What is a short period of climate change in an area caused by the tilt of Earth's axis as Earth revolves around the sun?
What is Seasons
300
Explain how the greenhouse effect works.
What is heat is trapped in the atmosphere and some of the heat warms up the earth.
300
List the occurance that causes the eastern Pacific to be warmer than normal.
What is El Nino
300
What is the human activity of cutting down trees called?
What is deforestation
300
Which zones represent the temperate climate zones?
What is the zones between the arctics and the tropics. (2 and 5)
400
What are heat-trapping atmospheric gases called?
What is Greenhouse Gases
400
What is the trend with CO2 levels and global temperature?
What is as CO2 levels have increased, global temperature has increased.
400
List two activities that humans can do to reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
What is recycle, stop burning wood, plant trees, conserve electricity, use alternative energy sources.
400
Which man-made gas is responsible for damaging the ozone layer?
What is chlorofluorocarbon.
400
Why is it colder at the polar regions than the equator?
What is What is less solar energy reaches the polar region because the sun's rays hit the poles at a high angle.
500
What is Global Warming?
What is the rise in the worlds average global temperature.
500
Which greenhouse gas is responsible for most of the gas trapped in the atmosphere?
What is Carbon Dioxide.
500
How could global warming effect the environment and/or different species.
What is loss of habitat or life because they cannot adapt to the temperature change.
500
List four human activities that have attributed to global warming.
What is deforestation, burning of fossil fuels, burning gasoline for transportation, and chemical fertilization (other reasonable answers may be accepted if they contribute to a rise in the atmospheric gases)
500
How do scientist know that the temperature of the earth is rising?