Exam 21: Climate Change

How does change in temperature and rainfall patterns affect the Earth?

Dropping sea level causes Earth's albedo to ____.

The three factors that determine the amount of heat available to drive the planet's climate and weather engines are the heat of the Sun, albedo, and the ____.

The ocean has become more acidic in the past decades, but marine organisms have adapted.

Despite a prediction that rainfall will increase with global warming, computer models forecast that ____.

The 20 hottest years on record have occurred after ____.

____________________ ratios in glacial ice reflect water temperature at the time the water evaporated.

Where does carbon circulate and how is it stored?

How do carbonate rocks form?

What are the two isotopes of oxygen?

____________________ in younger layers of sediment shows that about 10,500 years ago, pines displaced the spruce, indicating that the temperature became warmer.

Methane gas is stored in sea-floor sediments under low temperature and higher pressure conditions as frozen ____________________.

The past 10,000 years, during which civilization developed, is best characterized as having ____.

What is a tillite?

The atmosphere is the biggest carbon reservoir of all of Earth's spheres.

The thawing of permafrost can release the greenhouse gas ____________________ into the atmosphere.

Carbonate rocks precipitate from ____.

Which of the following is a greenhouse gas?

____________________ impacts can cause rapid and catastrophic climate changes.

When water evaporates from the ocean surface, solar energy is stored as ____.