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GHG
What is the acronym for greenhouse gas?
Isotope of Uranium that readily undergoes fission.
What is U235?
Explodes bat lungs if they get too close but it generates energy that is renewable.
What is a wind energy or wind turbine?
Oil, natural gas, coal... all those fossil fuels
What are nonrenewable resources?
ITCZ
Who is the Intertropical Convergence Zone?
Decline in sea ice, rising sea levels, and increase in oceanic temperature?
What are data that show climate change?
Nuclear power plant in the USA with a reactor that almost melted down.
What is Three Mile Island?
Type of renewable energy that uses PV cells instead of a turbogenerator.
What is solar energy?
Original superfund site near a really big waterfall.
What is Love Canal?
Effect that causes dry environments on the leeward side of a mountain range.
Who is a rain shadow?
Effect of melting the glaciers and heating the oceans.
What is rising sea (ocean) levels?
Subatomic particle responsible for keeping a fission chain reaction going.
What is a neutron?
Q in the resource consumption equation.
What is amount of energy source in the reserve?
Trees that are older than George Washington.
What are old-growth forests?
Even in which high and low pressure systems switch in the Pacific Ocean because of weakening tradewinds.
Where is ENSO or El Nino?
Shoots sulfur into the atmosphere... causing cooling.
What are volcanoes?
It's about 5,730 years for Carbon 14.
What is the half-life?
Splitting the hydrogen atoms off the oxygen.
What is electrolysis?
Farming fish.
What is aquaculture?
Where the CFCs react with the ozone making a hole.
What is the stratosphere?
Isotope of carbon in CO2 from combusted fossil fuels.
What is Carbon 12?
Carbon 14 becomes this when it decays.
What is Nitrogen 14?
What is hydroelectric energy or hydroelectric dam?
They tried to fish at just the right population size but missed the ______ and caused fishery collapse.
What is the inflection point?
Climate ~30 degrees north and south of the equator that is caused by the ITCZ.
What are deserts?