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GARP Chapter 1 Question and answers already passed 2 key contributing factors of rising sea level - correct answer 1) Melting of Grounded Ice
2) Water expansion due to warming
Tree Rings - correct answer These measurements can reveal climate variations in regions where trees grow and expe...
GARP Chapter 1
2 key contributing factors of rising sea level - correct answer ✔1) Melting of
Grounded Ice
2) Water expansion due to warming
Tree Rings - correct answer ✔These measurements can reveal climate
variations in regions where trees grow and experience seasons for the past
millennium.
Corals - correct answer ✔Analysis of the skeletons of these sea creatures
can yield climate conditions in the ocean over millions of years
Speleothems (e.g., stalactites and stalagmites) - correct answer ✔These
cave structures can yield estimates of the climate in the region around the
cave over the past few hundred thousand years
Ice Cores - correct answer ✔Measuring the chemical composition of ice
(mainly in Greenland and Antarctica) yields estimates of the climate over the
past million years or so.
Ocean sediment cores: - correct answer ✔Analyzing the composition of the
mud at the bottom of the ocean provides information about the climate
covering the past tens of millions of years. Figure 1.3a shows the temperature
over the past 70 million years.
Cold Periods - correct answer ✔Ice Ages
Warmer Periods - correct answer ✔interglacial
, Global average temperature between Ice Age and Interglacial periods -
correct answer ✔6 Degrees Celsius
The amount of energy radiated by an object is determined by: - correct
answer ✔Temperature (as the object heats up it radiates more energy)
Green house gases reduce: - correct answer ✔the amount of power the
Earth radiated to space. (A planet with more greenhouse gases is warmer
than a planet with less)
As the mass of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere increases - correct
answer ✔the atmosphere traps more heat, leading to higher temperatures.
The majority of the Earth's atmosphere consists of - correct answer
✔molecular nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), and the inert gas argon (Ar). These
simple molecules do not interact with infrared radiation and there-fore
generate no greenhouse effect to warm the surface.
the greenhouse effect is caused mainly by minor constituents in the
atmosphere: - correct answer ✔water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2),
and other components like methane
Water Vapor is: - correct answer ✔The most important greenhouse gas in
the atmosphere (Because it traps the most heat)
The most abundant Isotope - correct answer ✔carbon-12 has six neutrons
and six protons
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