Vocab
what is anthropogenic ?
a technology currently being use din cars that is helping to reduce carbon emissions in cars (even if it is not widely used)
What are hydrogen fuel cells
Does breathing contribute to climate change
what is no
Example of a positive feedback loop that involves climate change.
What is when high temperatures melt permafrost that release methane and decrease albino score, which reflects less light raising temperatures.
sustainable solution should be long or short term?
what is long term?
enhance or amplify changes; this tends to move a system away from its equilibrium state and make it more unstable
What is a positive feedback loop
Which fossil fuel contributes the least amount of carbon/greenhouse gases?
what is natural gas?
Explain how the atmosphere helps to heat the earth.
What is traps heat radiated from earth's surface
What causes ocean acidification?
What is an increase in CO2?
What does the Kyoto Protocol intend to do?
What is reduce emissions of six greenhouse gases to levels lower than those of 1990?
Impact = Population X Affluence X Technology
What is the IPAT model?
Industry producing the majority of carbon emissions
Why would the US enact more laws to help reduce climate change have a larger effect on climate change than a developing country?
What is that we are a major part of the problem and contribute more to climate change per capita than most other countries
What are some results from sea level rise?
What is increases in flooding, increases storm surge, salt water intrusion, beach erosion
Why might a pacific island nation build a high seawall?
What is a response to climate change/sea level rise
a market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants.
What is cap-and-trade?
The largest source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the US is?
What is transportation?
Which greenhouse gas contributes to climate change more, carbon dioxide or methane?
What is methane?
What is the most abundant greenhouse gas?
What is water vapor?
Which country has the greatest increase in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990-2012?
What is Australia?
cyclical movement related to the Earth's orbit around the Sun. There are three of them: eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession
What is Milankovitch cycles?
What is the most potent greenhouse gas?
What is -gases with fluorine and methanes (triflouromethal)
Which greenhouse gases are contributing to climate change?
What is CO2, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide, CFCs
Is earth’s climate changing due to natural or human processes?
What greenhouse gas is released during rice farming?
What is methane?