Chapter 21 - Climate And Climate Change

Question 0

What’s a city being a few degrees warmer than the surrounding region an example of?

Answer 0

A microclimate

Question 1

What affects the average temperature of a location?

Answer 1

Elevation

Question 2

What is a specialist that provides data research on climate change called?

Answer 2

A climatologist

Question 3

Where is the North Pole tilted during summer in the northern hemisphere?

Answer 3

To the sun

Question 4

What boundaries are 23.5 degrees from the poles?

Answer 4

The Arctic and Antarctica

Question 5

Where do citrus and olive trees grow best?

Answer 5

In a temperate marine climate

Question 6

Who studies ice cores from a deep glacier?

Answer 6

Climatologists

Question 7

What are big chunks of ice that break off of continental glaciers and float in the oceans?

Answer 7

Icebergs

Question 8

What scientists believe that there was one major ice age followed by a series of mini ice ages?

Answer 8

Young-earth scientists

Question 9

________ is to hibernation as ______ is to estivation

Answer 9

Cold; hot

Question 10

During what period do S. America, Mexico, and the SW US receive flooding rains?

Answer 10

ENSO

Question 11

What can lower the earth’s average temp for a year or more?

Answer 11

Volcano eruptions

Question 12

What can increased sunspot activity cause?

Answer 12

Global warming

Question 13

The earth’s average temp has increased .5-.8 degrees C over the last how many years?

Answer 13

50

Question 14

What have been studied to determine how CO2 levels have changed over the last decades?

Answer 14

Ice cores

Question 15

What describes the average weather over a long period of time?

Answer 15

Climate

Question 16

What is it called when the sun is straight over the Tropic of Capricorn?

Answer 16

Summer solstice

Question 17

What are seasonal winds that bring rainy weather to SE Asia?

Answer 17

Monsoons

Question 18

What traps heat from heat from the sun, raising earth’s temp?

Answer 18

The greenhouse hypothesis CO2

Question 19

WC Australian outback

Answer 19

Dry climate

Question 20

Slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro

Answer 20

Highland climate

Question 21

Siberian tundra

Answer 21

Polar climate

Question 22

Mediterranean coast of Europe

Answer 22

Temperate marine climate

Question 23

Forests of US Great Lakes region

Answer 23

Temperate continental climate

Question 24

African Savanna

Answer 24

Tropical rainy climate

Question 25

When does the sun heat the the earth's surface most effectively?

Answer 25

When the rays are vertical to earth's surface

Question 26

When it's summer in the Southern Hemisphere, it's ____________ in the northern hemisphere

Answer 26

Winter

Question 27

There are ______ temperate zones and ______ tropic zone

Answer 27

2;1

Question 28

The canopy theory has no what support?

Answer 28

Biblical

Question 29

What would affect average temp and precip?

Answer 29

Climate change

Question 30

Do old and young earth scientists agree that the earth has experienced climate change in the past?

Answer 30

Yes

Question 31

Are tree rings showing that average temps are changing?

Answer 31

No

Question 32

How long have scientists been gathering data on climate?

Answer 32

Less than 2 years

Question 33

Is polar bear population currently in decline?

Answer 33

No