What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather refers to the state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place, while climate is the average weather conditions that occur in a region over a long period of time, usually a minimum of 30 years.
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What is albedo?
The percent of incoming solar radiation reflected by a surface.
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What is the anthropogenic greenhouse effect?
The enhancement of the natural greenhouse effect due to human activities.
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What are the effects of climate change?
Heat waves, drought, wildfires, storms and floods.
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What is an economic system?
Organized way in which a country or region sets up activities related to hype goods and services are produced, distributed, and consumed.
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What is solar radiation?
Solar radiation is waves the radiate from the sun.
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What is the natural greenhouse effect?
The absorption of thermal energy by the atmosphere, maintaining Earth at an average temperature suitable for life.
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What are the top 3 causes of gas greenhouse gas emissions?
Transportation, fossil fuel industry, and mining and manufacturing industries.
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What are the effects of climate change in the hydrosphere?
Melting ice, ocean warming and the slowing down of ocean currents.
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What is the relationship between an economic system and climate change?
The economic system uses transportation which uses fossil fuels which creates emissions to transport their service or good to the destination.
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What are the spheres of the earth?
Biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.
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What is thermal energy transfer?
Thermal energy transfer is the movement of thermal energy from an area of high temp arrive to an area of low temperature.
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What's the difference between global
warming and climate change?
Global warming is the observed increase in earths average annual temperature and it's leading to climate change which is long term change in expected climate patterns.
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What would be the consequences if the ice caps kept melting?
Flooding land, changing habitats of shoreline habitants, changing geographic coastlines, and reducing the amount of fresh water available to communities.
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What are the societal impacts of climate change?
Food, drinkable water, infrastructure breakdown, disease, and population displacement.
What is the difference between radiation, conduction and convection?
Radiation is the emissions of energy through waves, conduction is the transfer of thermal energy through direct contact and convection is the transfer of thermal energy through the movement of particles from one location to another.
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Why do we use ice cores?
To help us understand what kind of gases were in the atmosphere in the past.
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What organisms benefit from climate change?
Jellyfish.
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What are some positive effects of climate change?
Length of growing season will increase with is good for farmers, and shortened traveling distances from europe to china and japan.
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What factors affect climate?
Latitude, elevation, air masses that flow over the area, and nearness to water.
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What is the Coriolis effect?
The Coriolis effect is the deflection of any object from a straight line path by the rotation of the earth.
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What is dendrochronology?
The study of tree ring patterns to reconstruct regional patterns of drought or climatic change.
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What are the effects of climate change on wildlife? Give an example of wildlife.
They have range shifts making then harder to find and there are threatened species for example coral reefs.