Chapter 1 Scientific Method And Climate Change

Question 1

What is life? Name many of the components

Answer 1

Cells= prokaryotic and eukaryotic
Homeostasis
Carbon compounds
Growth/ Development
Reproduction
Natural selection
Energy production

Question 2

Layers of the biosphere ( General to specific)

Answer 2

Biosphere
Ecosystem
Community
Species
Population

Question 3

Attributes of life

Answer 3

Order
Sensitivity
Evolution
Expression/ transmission of genes

Question 4

What are the levels of organizations (smallest to largest)

Answer 4

Atoms
Molecules
Macromolecules
Macro molecular assembly
Cell
Tissue
Organ
Organ system
Organism

Question 5

Does correlation guarantee causation?

Answer 5

No, if a hypothesis is supported it may suggest causation

Question 6

Hypothesis

Answer 6

Tentative explanation

Question 7

What is a prediction?

Answer 7

Expected outcome

Question 8

Where does the Dependent variable go in the axis’s?

Answer 8

Y axis

Question 9

Where does the Independent variable go in the axis’s?

Answer 9

X axis

Question 10

What’s inductive reasoning?

Answer 10

An observation that arrives to a theory

Question 11

What’s deductive reasoning?

Answer 11

A theory that arrived to observations

Question 12

Why is a peer review important?

Answer 12

It measures the strength and credibility of your data

Question 13

What causes climate change? (Name At least 3)

Answer 13

Green house gases
Deforestation
Albedo effect
Deterioration of ozone layer
Suns luminosity increase
Volcanoes
Natural variation

Question 14

Why is there a correlation between CO2 and temperature?

Answer 14

If temperature increases, more carbon dioxide is being exposed. If carbon dioxide emissions increases, more heat is going to be released to the atmosphere

Question 15

Deforestation

Answer 15

Land use change

Question 16

What is climate change?

Answer 16

Directional change to the global climate that last for more than 3 decades.

Question 17

What has climate change affected?

Answer 17

Wind patterns
Storms droughts
Deforestation
Animal extinction

Question 18

What is evolution?

Answer 18

Process of change overtime that has resulted in the outstanding array of organisms found on earth.

Question 19

Difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes?

Answer 19

Prokaryotes lack a nucleus and eukaryotes don’t. They also contain cytoplasm and chloroplast.

Question 20

What is DNA?

Answer 20

Deoxyribonucleic acid

Question 21

Genes

Answer 21

Each section of the DNA of a chromosome

Question 22

Gene expressions

Answer 22

The sequence of genes that provides a blueprint for protein production

Question 23

What are the 4 binding nuclei acids ?

Answer 23

A-T and C-G

Question 24

What does an Antibody do?

Answer 24

Fights infections

Question 25

MRNA _ protein

Answer 25

Transfers

Question 26

Genomics

Answer 26

Entire library of genetic instructions of an organism

Question 27

How much is the Earth heating up?

Answer 27

Two degrees

Question 28

What is the green house effect ?

Answer 28

Gases that are trapped in our atmosphere that trap and slow down heat that would escape the earth

Question 29

How does the GHE causes global warming?

Answer 29

Many trapped gases such as Carbon dioxide and methane are being trapped because of the amount of emissions

Question 30

How do we know humans are responsible for the increase in carbon dioxide?

Answer 30

Due to human activity such as burning of fossil fuels and natural emissions

Question 31

Why do people deny the science of climate change?

Answer 31

Market orientations

Question 32

What could happen for such change in climate ?

Answer 32

Extreme weather, lots of animal habitats, deterioration of ice caps.

Question 33

What is the Paris agreement?

Answer 33

Virtually every country agreed to limit future emissions.

Question 34

Does clean energy help or hurt the economy?

Answer 34

Good: Job growth in renewable energy is strong Bad: costly

Question 35

What is fracking ?

Answer 35

Hydraulic fracturing that excavates coal instead of burning

Question 36

What is clean coal?

Answer 36

Approach in which emissions from coal burning power plants would be captured and pumped under ground

Question 37

scientific hypothesis

Answer 37

if then and because

Question 38

statistical hypothesis

Answer 38

showing correlation

Question 39

null hypothesis

Answer 39

showing no correlation between variables

Question 40

alternate hypothesis

Answer 40

correlation between two variables

Question 41

prediction

Answer 41

what you expect to happen

Question 42

theory

Answer 42

prediction or hypothesis tested and proven to be true yet falsified