Biosphere & Climate
This term describes average weather conditions over a long period of time. It tends to focus on precipitation and temperature.
What is climate?
This term describes the amount of solar energy a region receives on the Earth’s surface.
What is insolation?
In the specific heat capacity formula, the variable m represents this.
What is mass?
Biomes are this type of system.
What is an open system?
This gas is becoming the greatest contributor to the enhanced greenhouse effect.
What is CO2?
This element makes up 78% of the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
Based on EMR, a shorter wavelength would have greater amounts of this.
What is energy?
A substance going from a solid to a liquid is this type of heat conversion.
Hint: Think of H=Q/n
What is heat of fusion?
This provides the average amount of precipitation and temperature.
What is a climatograph?
This time period led to the kickstart of increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This protects us from high-energy solar radiation.
What is the ozone layer?
This object would have a higher albedo when comparing the ocean vs. the sand.
What is the ocean?
Water reflects light more than sand!
This term describes the transfer of thermal energy through the movement of particles in a fluid by currents set up as a result of a difference in the density of warmer and cooler fluids.
What is convection?
A desert climatograph would have a low average of this.
What is precipitation?
This term describes when there are higher levels of CO2 being absorbed than removed from the atmosphere.
What is carbon sinks?
Polar bears having a thick, fur coat is an example of this.
What is an adaptation?
For Earth to remain in homeostasis, we need a net radiation budget of this.
What is zero?
The Coriolis Effect causes objects in the Northern Hemisphere to deflect this direction.
What is the right?
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories would be an example of this biome.
What is tundra?
This industrial practice has reduced nature's ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
What is deforestation?
Ice cores can give us evidence of concentrations of gases such as CO2. High concentrations of CO2 tell me this about the temperature.
What is high/increased temperature?
Solar heating is the greatest on this part of the Earth's surface.
What is the equator?
A material that requires high amounts of energy to undergo a temperature change.
What is a high specific heat capacity?
Bangkok, Thailand is an example of this type of biome.
What is tropical rainforest?
An agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
What is the Paris Climate Agreement?