Section 1: Conceptualizing Climate Change in the Past and Present

Question 1

According to overall history, humans and climate have had a long and strong relationship.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

What is a forcing?

Accepted Answer

Specific causes of climate change

Question 3

According to the Archives of Society, when was the thermometer invented?

Accepted Answer

1700

Question 4

Which of the following does the geosphere include?

Accepted Answer

Rocks, The excess nitrogen found in the weird nodules that oak trees drop, Trees, Plants

Question 5

What does ESS stand for?

Accepted Answer

Earth System Science

Question 6

When did historians begin to include climate in narratives?

Accepted Answer

2000s

Question 7

The Archives of Nature includes Ice Cores, which serve what purpose?

Accepted Answer

Preserves past atmospheric air

Question 8

What is an example of positive feedback?

Accepted Answer

ice caps melting

Question 9

Which of the following forcings is related to the Milankovitch Cycles?

Accepted Answer

Solar Energy

Question 10

Which of the following is not a true subsystem of Earth?

Accepted Answer

Pyrosphere

Question 11

Which of the following is not a field for studying history of climate, listed in the resource guide?

Accepted Answer

The History of Meteorology

Question 12

In which era are we living in today?

Accepted Answer

Holocene

Question 13

Which of the following zones does not exist in the atmosphere?

Accepted Answer

Solarsphere

Question 14

Grain prices are an unreliable record for the Archives of Society.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

What does AWG stand for?

Accepted Answer

Anthropocene Working Group

Question 16

Geosphere and Lithosphere are the same.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

What is feedback?

Accepted Answer

Reactions to climate change caused by forcings

Question 18

Where do the most interactions between geosphere and other systems occur?

Accepted Answer

Crust

Question 19

Which of the following is the newest field of study?

Accepted Answer

The History of Climate and Society

Question 20

Who made important contributions to Climate History?

Accepted Answer

Christian Pfizer

Questions 20