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ES 200 Fina Exa Study Set ExamQuestion And Answers 2024
Eastern NC has the climate type named "Humid
Subtropical" (True/False) - correct answers✅True
The letters IPCC stand for "Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change". (True/False) - correct answers✅True
The elemental symbol for calcium is Ca. (True/False) -
correct answers✅True
The formula "CH4" is for the greenhouse gas methane.
(True/False) - correct answers✅True
Shells that grew in cold water have higher 18O/16O than
shells growing in warm water. (True/False) - correct
answers✅True
The "ice age" occurred during the Holocene epic.
(True/False) - correct answers✅False
When glaciers formed the CO2 concentrations in the
atmosphere were low. (True/False) - correct
answers✅True
,ES 200 Fina Exa Study Set Exam
Question And Answers 2024
A major cause of sea level rise is the water is expanding
on warming. (True/False) - correct answers✅True
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb mostly
visible light. (True/False) - correct answers✅False
Water vapor in the atmosphere absorbs more
wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation than does
carbon dioxide. (True/False) - correct answers✅True
The downward flux (amount) of infrared radiation from
the atmosphere is about twice as high as incoming
sunlight to the earth. (True/False) - correct
answers✅True
Incoming radiation to the earth is larger than the
radiation being returned to space. The excess energy is
being stored mostly in the atmosphere. (True/False) -
correct answers✅False
A climate forcing agent always increases earth's
temperature. (True/False) - correct answers✅False
,ES 200 Fina Exa Study Set Exam
Question And Answers 2024
Sunspots are one type of climate forcing agent.
(True/False) - correct answers✅True
If an object has an albedo of 70%, then 70% of the
incoming radiation is reflected. (True/False) - correct
answers✅True
Climate feedback loops can increase or dampen the
response to a forcing. (True/False) - correct
answers✅True
Earth System Models (ESM) are the most complex of the
climate models developed. (True/False) - correct
answers✅True
Ensembles or groups of models are used to make
predictions of future average global temperatures.
(True/False) - correct answers✅True
In order to agree with observations of temperature,
climate models must exclude the impacts of greenhouse
gases. (True/False) - correct answers✅False
, ES 200 Fina Exa Study Set Exam
Question And Answers 2024
A representative concentration pathway (RCP) of 8.5
assumes higher concentrations of CO2 gases in the
atmosphere by 2100 than and an RCP of 2.5. (True/False)
- correct answers✅True
Increases in carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and
halocarbon gases have caused global temperatures to
rise by about 1 oC since 1750. (True/False) - correct
answers✅True
Organic matter that decomposes under anaerobic
conditions releases methane. (True/False) - correct
answers✅True
The Keeling curve shows the increase in N2O over time.
(True/False) - correct answers✅False
The greenhouse gas with the largest Global Warming
Potential (GWP) is carbon dioxide. (True/False) - correct
answers✅False
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