Climate zone located between 66.5 deg N and 90 deg N (and the corresponding S coordinates).
What is polar?
100
The average, yearly conditions of an area over time.
What is climate.
100
Continental climates tend to have more extreme climate ranges because they are further away from this.
What is water.
100
What type of scientist would study climate proxies?
What is a paleoclimatologist?
100
78% of atmospheric gasses are what kind of gas?
What is Nitrogen.
200
Continuous movement of water between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
200
Which of the following is NOT a greenhouse gas? a) water vapor b) oxygen c) methane d) carbon dioxide
What is b) oxygen.
200
Ozone, a naturally occurring and UV ray-blocking gas occurs in this layer.
What is stratosphere.
200
Finish the sentence: Earth's axis always points ...
What is the same direction.
200
Another word for indirect evidence or proxies.
What is imprints.
300
A measurement referring to how much a surface reflects or absorbs energy.
What is albedo?
300
Gasses that comprise 0.04% of Earth's atmospheric gasses are ___ gasses.
What is trace?
300
These result from Earth's tilt away from the Sun in combination with Earth's revolution around the Sun.
What are seasons.
300
Climate is categorized based on what 2 factors?
What is temperature and precipitation.
300
Farmers' diaries, ships' logs, newspaper accounts serve specifically as what when studying past climates? (Be specific!)
What are historical proxy records.
400
Identify relationship between latitude and angle of the Sun's rays.
What is higher lat, lower angle of sun; lower lat, greater angle of sun.
400
The 2 gasses that make up most of Earth's atmosphere.
What are Nitrogen, Oxygen.
400
This is the most dense atmospheric layer; weather phenomenon occur here.
What is troposphere.
400
What do ancient climate proxies indicate about Earth's climate.
What is changed over the course of Earth's geologic history (both warmer and colder).
400
What specific type of emission gas would likely be affected by human's modifying energy consumption?
What is carbon dioxide.
500
Identify the 4 main factors that influence temperature.
What is latitude, altitude, distance from water, ocean currents.
500
Since 1860, Earth's atmospheric temperature has increased by approximately (1, 10, 50, 100) degrees C.
What is 1.
500
What is an atom of a single atom type but having different numbers of neutrons called, and specifically which element is commonly used as a climate proxy?
What is isotope and oxygen.
500
What do darker layers in a sediment core represent, and what might they indicate about climate conditions?
What is producers; warm, moist conditions.
500
What animal imprint can be used to determine ancient climates based on its use of oxygen, and what chemical compound do these animals make that contains oxygen?