Climate

Question 1

Evaporation

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is a process in which a substance of a liquid state changes into a gaseous state due to an increase in temperature or pressure

Question 2

Condensation

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water that collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it or the conversion of a vapor or gas to a liquid

Question 3

Precipitation

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Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet, or hail — any kind of weather condition where something’s falling from the sky

Question 4

Submilition

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a substance from a solid state directly transform into a gaseous state skipping the liquid state

Question 5

Transpiration

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Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers

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Percolation

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Percolation happens when liquid is strained through a filter, like when someone makes coffee.

Question 7

Run Off

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Surface runoff is water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface, and is a major component of the water cycle

Question 8

Water Reservoirs

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A natural or artificial place where water is stored

Question 9

Carbon

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A naturally abundant, nonmetallic element that occurs in all organic compounds and can be found in all known forms of life

Question 10

Atmosphere

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The blanket of gas on the surface of a planet or satellite

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Biosphere

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The parts of the land, sea, and atmosphere in which organisms are able to live

Question 12

Geosphere/lithosphere

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The geosphere is the collective name for the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, and the atmosphere.

Question 13

Hydrosphere

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the total amount of water on a planet.

Question 14

Carbon Dioxide

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Carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless gas found in our atmosphere. Its chemical formula is CO2

Question 15

Cellular Respiration

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the process of breaking sugar into a form that the cell can use as energy. This happens in all forms of life.

Question 16

Photosynthesis

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the process by which plants and other things make food.
Decomposition - The separation of a substance into simpler substances or basic elements or the process of decaying or rotting

Question 17

Sedimentation

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any particulate matter that can be transported by fluid flow and which eventually is deposited as a layer of solid particles on the bed or bottom of a body of water or other liquid.

Question 18

Weather

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the state of the air and atmosphere at a particular time and place : the temperature and other outside conditions such as rain, cloudiness, etc.

Question 19

Climate

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prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years.

Question 20

Altitude

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The height of an object or structure above a reference level, usually above sea level or the Earth’s surface

Question 21

Latitude

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A measure of relative position north or south on the Earth’s surface, measured in degrees from the equator

Question 22

Temperature

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a measure of how hot or cold something is; specifically, a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object, which is a type of energy associated with motion

Question 23

Thermal expansion of water

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one of the primary causes of the rising sea levels on earth.

Question 24

Greenhouse Gases

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a warming of Earth’s surface and the air above it. It is caused by gases in the air that trap energy from the sun

Question 25

Fossil Fuels

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A hydrocarbon deposit, such as petroleum, coal, or natural gas, derived from the accumulated remains of ancient plants and animals and used as fuel

Question 26

Ozone

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a form of oxygen with a peculiar odor suggesting that of weak chlorine, produced when an electric spark or ultraviolet light is passed through air or oxygen.

Question 27

Chlorofluorocarbons

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any of a class of compounds of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine, typically gases used in refrigerants and aerosol propellants.

Question 28

Carbon “sink”

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a forest, ocean, or other natural environment viewed in terms of its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Question 29

Carbon “footprint”

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the amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels by a particular person, group, etc.

Question 30

Greenhouse gas effect

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The greenhouse effect is a warming of Earth's surface and the air above it. It is caused by gases in the air that trap energy from the sun

Question 31

CO2

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one carbon atom bonded to two oxygen atoms. It is a waste product in our bodies and is also produced by burning fossil fuels.

Question 32

Methane

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A colorless, odorless, flammable gas that is the simplest hydrocarbon. It is the major constituent of natural gas and is released during the decomposition of plant or other organic compounds, as in marshes and coal mines.

Question 33

Nitrous Oxide

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a colorless gas that when inhaled produces loss of sensibility to pain preceded by exhilaration and sometimes laughter and is used especially as an anesthetic in dentistry called also laughing gas.

Question 34

Effects of Climate change (give 5)

Answer 34

``` Wildfires Loss of sea ice which increases the sea level More intense heat waves Tropical storms Greenhouse gas effect ```

Question 35

Proxy Record

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a Paleoclimatologist that gathers proxy data from natural recorders of climate variability such as tree rings, ice cores, fossil pollen, ocean sediments, corals and historical data.

Question 36

Feedback Loop

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the equivalent of a vicious or virtuous circle something that accelerates or decelerates a warming trend. A positive feedback accelerates a temperature rise, whereas a negative feedback decelerates it

Question 37

Mountain Pine Beetle

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a bark beetle of the western U.S. that is extremely destructive to stands of lodgepole and sugar pines.

Question 38

Ice core

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Cylinders of ice obtained by drilling into a glacier

Question 39

Anthropogenic

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chiefly of environmental pollution and pollutants originating in human activity.