WGU C267 Climate Change

GCSE Geography-Climate Change (WGU C267 - Climate Change), Questions and answers. VERIFIED. When did global warming start? - -From 1950s Three ways of knowing climate change? - -Ice cores, glacial retreat, early spring and rising sea levels Describe the greenhouse effect - -The earth allows short wavelength radiation from the sun to heat up the earths surface. Some of the radiation (long wavelength radiation) is emmited and reflected by the earth and is absorbed by greenhouse gases li...

What is the Climate? - -The mean of Earth surface conditions. Climate does not equal weather Climate Zones - -Regions of similar conditions What creates the climate? - -1. Starts with insolation and ends with energy balance 2. Energy & matter exchanged among surface components What is a blackbody curve and what does it represent? - -Energy vs. wavelength. Shift is a function of temperature What gases cause the 'greenhouse effect'? - -H2O, CO2, CH4, O3, N2O, CFC's. Two types of matter e...