Climate & Climate Change Vocab
the state of the atmosphere at a particular place at a particular moment
What is weather?
A molecule made of 3 oxygen atoms that absorbs UV light and radiation
What is ozone?
Gases that absorb and radiate heat
What are greenhouse gases?
Polar stratospheric clouds convert the products of CFC's into...
What is chlorine?
Were playing cards created in Europe, Asia or Africa?
What is Asia?
The long-term prevailing weather conditions at a particular place based upon records taken
What is climate?
An area in the stratosphere where ozone is highly concentrated
What is the ozone layer?
The increase in the average temperature of Earth's surface during the twentieth century
What is global warming?
False!
What is the name of the major fault line that causes earthquakes in and around Los Angeles?
What is the San Andreas Fault?
The distance from the equator measured in degrees north or south of the equator
What is latitude?
Human-made chemicals that damage the ozone layer
What are chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs?
This major greenhouse gas composed of carbon and oxygen comes from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation
What is CO2?
Are any of the following substances NOT a greenhouse gas? carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane
What is the oldest college in the United States?
What is Harvard University?
The name given to the short-term (generally 6-18 month), periodic change in the location of warm and cold water masses in the Pacific Ocean
What is El Nino?
A thinning of stratospheric ozone that occurs over the poles during the Spring
What is the ozone hole?
This major greenhouse gas is composed of carbon and hydrogen and comes from animal waste, burning of biomass & fossil fuel, landfills, livestock, rice paddies, sewage, and wetlands
What is methane?
The average global temperature increased by how many degrees during the 20th century (1900's)?
What is about 0.6 degrees Celsius or 1.08 degrees Fahrenheit?
The oldest person ever recorded lived to be what age? (closest guess gets the points!)
What is 122 years old?
When the water in the Pacific Ocean is cooler than usual
What is La Nina?
High-altitude clouds made of water and nitric acid in very cold temperatures
What are polar stratospheric clouds?
This major greenhouse gas composed of nitrogen and oxygen and comes from the burning of biomass & fossil fuels, deforestation, and microbial activities
What is nitrous oxide?
This treaty required developed countries to decrease emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses by an average of 5 percent below their 1990 level by 2012
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
What are the two outermost on the upper and lower ends of a rainbow?
What are red and violet?