Climate Fundamentals
CA feedback loop can be either ___ or ___.
What is negative or positive?
Name at least 4 of the Greenhouse gases.
What is water vapour, CO2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, Tropospheric ozone, chlorofluorocarbons?
This planetary sphere refers to all living organisms.
What is the biosphere?
Painting roofs this color will increase the reflection of radiation.
What is white?
Transfer of organic material from freshwater sources, an increase of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere from industry, and acid rain all contribute to this negative outcome in oceans.
What is acidification?
This diagram shows what effect:
What is the greenhouse effect?
40% of this greenhouse gas exists in our atmosphere due to human activities.
What is Nitrous Oxide?
The atmosphere contains part of the hydrosphere in the form of this?
What is water vapor?
Early-warning systems, modifying buildings, and reforestation are strategies designed to reduce this risk.
What is flooding?
Thermohaline circulation is the flow of ocean water caused by changes in this because of this.
What is density, climate change?
The amount of this that our planet receives varies over space and time.
What is radiation?
There are three human activities that are increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide: ___, ___, __.
What is the Combustion of fossil fuels, removal of natural vegetation, and Industrial processes?
These are the two main examples of the interactions between the atmosphere and the biosphere.
What is photosynthesis and respiration?
The removal of this will add carbon to the atmosphere.
What is vegetation?
There is a decrease in crop yield in low-(BLANK) countries?
What is low-latitude countries?
Albedo is the proportion of what radiation reflected by a surface?
What is shortwave solar radiation?
There are a number of human activities that increase the proportion of nitrous oxide. Name at least 2 of them.
What is Agriculture, combustion of fossil fuels, industrial processes, burning biomass, atmospheric deposition, bacteria in sewage facilities?
This human activity interferes with the interactions of the biosphere and the atmosphere.
What is deforestation?
This set of technologies trap carbon dioxide from industrial sources or directly from the air, which prevent it from entering the atmosphere.
What is carbon capture?
This creature will benefit from the increased warming and rainfall in regions to the north and south of the tropics.
What is the mosquito?
A ___ consists of a number of parts that interact with each other and the surrounding environment.
What is a system?
The melting of permafrost will release this greenhouse gas, other than carbon dioxide, that will cause a significant amplification of the enhanced greenhouse effect?
What is methane?
Higher temperatures mean greater evaporation and warmer air has a higher capacity to hold what?
What is water?
Fossil fuels have begun to be replaced with this instead.
What is biofuels?
This is the warming of Earth’s climate caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases due to anthropogenic activities
What is global warming?