Earth Science 2020 Final Exam Review

Climate change affects the hydrosphere in all ways except.....

Which of the following is renewable energy?

Our Sun, when compared to other stars is considered to be simply an average star.

Acid Rain consists of sulfuric acid that originated from what?

Why does the carbon dioxide increase and decrease each year?

As the distance a planet is from the sun increases, how does the time required to go around the sun change?

All stars start as a ____________________.

How could planting trees help slow global warming?

In order to be considered a "habitable planet", or Goldilocks planet, the 3 criteria include all the following except:

We have determined that CO2 levels are at their highest in 650,000 years from what main piece of evidence?

All the heavy elements, that make up everything you see around you, were made inside a star.

Energy resources that form over millions of years from the remains of living things are called

Which of the following does not come from the sun's energy

Our sun will become a black hole.

Which one show the correct sources of anthropogenic (human) greenhouse gases?

A very high temperature is recorded. Is this evidence for global warming?

All of the following are ways you reduce your carbon footprint, EXCEPT?

When no more elements fuse, the core and rest of the star collapses so quickly that it creates shock waves and explodes

What is an individual's carbon footprint?

According to the Solar Nebula Theory, our solar system formed out of what?

How is the size of the universe changing?

The solution to removing 50% of the carbon in 20 years consists of all of the following except:

Why are alternative energies not being used more in the US?

In addition to red-shift, what is another piece of evidence for the Big Bang Theory?

If I look at an object 4.3 light years away (like Alpha Centauri, our closest star) how old is the light that I see?

What is true of the greenhouse effect?