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What effect helps to keep the Earth warmer then it other wise would be?
a) Greenhouse effect
b) Coriolis effect
c) Convection effect
d) Anemometer effect
What are the gasses that absorb heat given off by the Earth's surface called?
a) Heat Absorbing Gasses
b) Polar Molecule Gasses
c) Greenhouse gasses
d) Reflective Gasses
What can be expected to happen when a heat lamp is placed over a sealed beaker full of carbon dioxide and a sealed beaker of oxygen?
a) Neither gas will heat up.
b) Both the oxygen and carbon dioxide will heat up the same
c) The oxygen will heat up more then the carbon dioxide
d) The carbon dioxide will heat up more then the oxygen
In the next year or two following a massive volcanic eruption, what can be the expected result on global temperature?
a) Temperatures will be cooler for the next decade
b) Temperatures will be cooler for 1-2 years
c) Temperatures will be warmer for the next decade
d) The temperature will not change
What about the Earths orbit or rotation changes according to the Milankovitch cycle known as eccentricity?
a) The orbit becomes more circular or more oval
b) The axis of the Earth become more tilted
c) The pole changes the direction it faces
d) This is some psyco pants term Mr. Stephenson made up
What are milankovitch cycles?
a) Explanations for how convection works
b) Explanations for how Earth's climate can change naturally
c) Explanations for how storms form naturally
d) Explanations for how
What happens to the oceans if more CO2 is added to the atmosphere?
a) The ocean becomes cooler
b) The ocean becomes more alkaline
c) The ocean becomes more basic
d) The ocean becomes more acidic
What is it that ice cores are useful for?
a) Studying the ancient oceans
b) Studying ancient life forms
c) Studying past atmospheres
d) Studying ancient plants
How is climate different from weather?
a) Weather is what is currently happening, while climate is long term averages
b) Climate is what is currently happening, while weather is long term averages
c) Climate and weather are actually the same thing with different names
d) Weather depends on whether you are wanting to make a good pun, or one that will rain on someone's parade.
Where do animals get the carbon that is found in their bodies?
a) From the air they breath
b) From the ground
c) From the food they eat
d) From the vitamins people eat.
Which weather front is classified as causing dramatic changes in weather with short term, moderate to heavy rainstorms?
a) Warm Front
b) Cold Front
c) Stationary Front
d) Occluded Front
For their to be a hurricane, what must be the water temperature?
a) 60F
b) 70F
c) 75F
d) 80 F
What will warm air do in the presences of cold air?
a) Stay
b) Sink
c) Rise
d) Expand
High pressure is classified as...
a) Cold air that is sinking
b) Hot air that is sinking
c) Cold air that is rising
d) How air that is rising
You live in an area where the storms come from the east, you notice there is a strong wind coming from the north. You just had a storm, but there is one coming. What is causing the wind?
a) The storm that is coming
b) The storm that just came
c)
d)
For us we know a storm has passed when the winds come from the north because low pressure systems rotate in which direction
a) Clockwise
b) Counter Clockwise
c)
d)
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