The Atmosphere
Vocab
Changing Climate
Solutions for our Climate
Hodge Podge
Final Jeopardy
100
The zone of the atmosphere where most weather events take place in
Troposphere
100
This is known as incoming solar radiation that reaches the Earth’s surface
Insolation
100
Scientists study these in order to learn more about the CO2 present in the atmosphere hundreds of thousands of years ago
Ice core data
100
What year did COP 28 take place
2023
100
What is the state capital of Washington?
Olympia
200
List 3 of the main greenhouse gases
CO2
N2O
CH4
H2O
200
water vapor contains a huge amount of stored energy, this is called what?
latent heat
200
This graph is known as _______
The Keeling Curve
200
This is described as instituting a legal cap on emissions then allowing companies to buy and sell shares of that total
cap and trade
200
What is the name of the New England Patriots home stadium?
Gillette Stadium
300
The reflectivity of a surface
Albedo
300
a common term to describe the capture of energy by gases in the atmosphere
Greenhouse Effect
300
These cycles changes in the Earth’s orbit, tilt and wobble on its axis.
Milankovitch cycles
300
In what city did we see an example of what was called the “world’s most sustainable city”
Dubai
300
Which country has the most natural lakes in the world?
Canada
300
Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?
Stratosphere
400
The gulf stream keeping northern europe warmer is an example of this modifying our climate
Ocean Currents
400
Paying to plant trees because you use carbon in your daily life is an example of this
Carbon Offsets
400
What isotope is looked at to help scientist study the temperatures in ice core data?
Oxygen Isotopes
400
This is known as paying to plant trees because you use carbon in your daily life
carbon offsets
400
What is the state bird of NJ?
Goldfinch
500
Correctly sequence the atmospheric zones from earth’s surface → upward
troposphere,
stratosphere,
mesosphere,
thermosphere,
exosphere.
500
This means a countries net-greenhouse gas emissions are zero
Carbon neutral
500
This greenhouse gas absorbs much more infrared energy than CO2 and is accumulating twice as fast as CO2
Methane
500
Norway injects CO2 in to an aquifer below the North Sea, this is known as
Carbon Capture
500
What was the first feature-length animated movie ever released?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)