The Earth is made up of segments called
Subsystems
What are the external factors that affect the environment
Forcings
The year 0 in this system is the estimated birth date of
Jesus Christ
The _____ was a period of cooler global temperatures from 1300 to 1850 CE
Little Ice Age (LIA)
The area of the Roman Empire was largley inherited from
Alexander the Great
The two types of archives
Society, Nature
Name every subsystem
Hydrosphere, Geosphere, Biosphere, Atmosphere
Warmer periods between ice ages are called
interglacial periods
The holocene sub-epoch began with an ice core in Greenland named
NGRIP2
The point of no return with postive feedbacks
The tipping point
This word is another word for geosphere
Thermometers date back to around what year
1700
What epoch came before the Holocene
Pleistocene
The Holocene thermal maximum happened during what sub-epoch of the Holocene
11,000-7000 Years ago
This historian stated that 536 CE was the worst year to be alive
Michael McCormick
The theory for climate dictating human history
Climate Determinsim
(a group) proposed that the Anthropocene should be its own geological time interval in what year
2019
The period started with the collapse of what?
Laurentide ice sheet
The city of Mohenjo-Daro was built around
2500 BCE
The practice of getting climate information from trees is called, bonus for word roots
Denrochronology, Dendro:tree, Chronology:Time
Who proposed that the Anthropocene should be its own geological time interval
Anthropocene Working Group (AWG)
Name every atmospheric zone, bonus for being in order
Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Tropsphere
The Sahel is centered about a latitude of
15° N
The late holocene is also known as the Meghalayan stage/age. It was named after what
Mawmluh cave
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