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This type of context would answer questions such as the following: When did the source appear? What was the social or political situation it emerged from and shaped?

Historical context

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This term refers to the small fraction of gases that have the ability to trap infrared heat energy

Greenhouse gases

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According to the "Global Warming's Six Americas" study, this adjective refers to the group of people who do not think global warming is happening or they just think it is a natural cycle

Doubtful

100

This term refers to the average weather in an area over a long period of time

Climate

100

This actor plays the lead in the 2019 film "Ad Astra"

Brad Pitt

200

This type of structure is an order determined by what is most helpful for writers themselves while they're drafting, as they try to remember to include everything important

Writer-based structure

200

This old Latin term refers to land that is empty and belongs to nobody

Terra nullius

200

The right type of evidence is the type that your audience finds "this"

Convincing 

200

These are two examples of greenhouse gases

Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, etc

200

This actor plays the lead in the 2011 film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes

James Franco

300

This refers to capturing the meaning of a passage without using the language or structure of the original 

Paraphrasing

300

This term refers to the increase in production and consumption of goods beginning around 1950, after World War II

The Great Acceleration 

300

According to the "Global Warming's Six Americas" study, this adjective refers to the group of people who are convinced global warming is happening, human-caused, an urgent threat, and strongly support climate policies

Alarmed

300

This is the main contributor to climate change

Burning fossil fuels

300

UCSD was founded in this year

1960

400

During the Renaissance, Baldesar Castiglione coined this term to describe a kind of "practiced ease:

Sprezzatura 

400

The richest 1 billion people on this planet are responsible for roughly this percentage of greenhouse gas emissions

50%

400

According to the "Global Warming's Six Americas" study, this adjective refers to the group of people who know little about global warming. They rarely or never hear about it in the media

Disengaged

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Most scientists believe anthropogenic climate change will be irreversible by this year

~2030

400

This planet is the 3rd away from the Sun

Earth

500

This structure refers to when the introduction previews the claim and maps out the steps it will take to arrive at that claim

Front-loaded claim

500

This is the name of the 2015 encyclical by Pope Francis calling for environmental action from the Catholic church

Laudato Si

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Over the past 10 years, this group from the "Six Americas" study has grown more than any other group

Alarmed

500

This greenhouse gas is largely produced by cows and other ruminant animals

Methane
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This is the name of the original host of the TV show Jeopardy!

Alex Trebek