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Climate
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Global Warming
Vocabulary
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*****What climate zone is the driest?

What is the desert

100
The amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere during the last 2000 years has
What is increased continually.
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***What is the overall trend for global temperature?

What is global temperature is increasing.

100

***What is the ultimate cause of the global warming trend?

What are human activities.

100

***What is the current condition of the atmosphere including cloud cover, temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, and air pressure?

What is weather.

200

****Why is it colder at the polar regions than the equator?

What is less solar energy reaches the polar region because the sun's rays hit the poles at a high angle.

200
List three greehouse gases found in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
200
List a natural climatic event that affects the climate.
What is solar radiation (flares), El Nino, or volcanic eruptions.
200
What does not contribute to global warming?
What is the hole in the ozone layer.
200

***What is the average weather pattern in an area over a long period of time?

What is climate.

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What kind of climate is the temperate climate zone?
What is moderate. In other words, it wuld not be either of the extremes of being in the polar regions or the region near the equator (tropical zones).
300
The greenhouse effect is a result of what?
What is infrared radiation being trapped by the atmosphere.
300
List the occurance that causes the eastern Pacific to be warmer than normal.
What is El Nino.
300
Which gas is the largest contributor to global warming?
What is carbon dioxide.
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 season.

400

***What is the difference between weather and climate?

What is weather is the current condition of the atmosphere and climate is the average weather pattern in an area over a long period of time.

400
What is the trend with CO2 levels and global temperature?
What is as CO2 levels have increased, global temperature has increased.
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List two activites 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.
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***What is global warming?

What is the rise in the worlds average global temperature.

400
What is a colorless, odorless, flammable gas produced by the decomposition of organic matter or from coal?
What is methane.
500

***List three factors that affect climate.

What is latitude, large bodies of water, ocean currents, mountains, cities. (any three)

500
What does is mean when we say carbon dioxide is measured in parts per million?
What is there is one carbon dioxide molecule per one million air molecules.
500
Why might global warming lead to the extinction of some organisms?
What is some organisms are not adapted for warmer temperatures.
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
What are greehouse gases?
What is heat-trapping atmospheric gases.