Lesson1
What is the name for the long-term temperature, wind, clouds, and precipitation patterns in an area?
What is Climate
What are the 3 pieces of evidence that scientists use to support the idea that global warming is happening?
What are greenhouse gas concentrations, decreases in amounts of sea ice, and increases in sea levels.
How could alternative energy sources affect the Earth's atmosphere?
What is reduce levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
What climate zone would Greenland have?
How many moons are currently orbiting Jupiter?
What are 79 moons.
What are the main factors that influence the amount of precipitation in an area or region?
What is prevailing winds, presence of mountain ranges, and seasonal winds.
What are the three ways that scientists study the history of the Earth's climate?
What are fossils, ice cores, and tree rings.
What two effects are scientists concerned about in relation to global warming?
What are an increase in melting sea ice and an increase in carbon dioxide from melting permafrost.
Water along the eastern coast of the United States would be warmer or colder than the Pacific Ocean.
What is warmer.
What color are professional baseball umpires required to wear?
What is Black.
What relationship exists between altitude and other climate factors?
What is an increase in altitude results in a decreasing of wind speed.
What would happen on earth if there were no greenhouse gases in the atmosohere?
What is the atmosphere would cool and would not support life.
What can be caused by rising temperatures if a climate is warmed?
What is an increase in sea levels.
What is the difference between the air inside and the air outside of a greenhouse?
What is the air inside the greenhouse is warmer than the outside air because of the trapped solar energy inside
What's the length of the shortest war in history?
What is 38 Min.
The difference between weather and climate?
What is weather is day to day change in temperature and precipitation and climate is a pattern of temperature and precipitation over time.
Much of the greenhouse gasses come from what?
What is the burning of fossil fuels.
What is a cascade effect?
What would be two reasons why a warm weather ant fossil be found in Antarctica?
What is the Earth continents move gradually, and Antarctica's climate was warmer in the past.
What is Kagen S. favorite food?
What is Nachos and Pretzels.
What are the four different factors that affect the temperature of an area on earth?
What are latitude, altitude, ocean currents, and distance from bodies of water.
The amount of greenhouse gases contributed by humans is call what?
What is the carbon footprint.
How is a scientific argument different from a fight or disagreement?
Scientists disagree about how to interpret data; they argue by presenting evidence to support their claim.
How would a tree ring provide information about past climates?
What is,wide rings indicate a rainy season, and narrow rings indicate a dry season.
What is the best holiday drink?
What is Cranberry Sprite.