Topic 3 Assessment Review

As an area's latitude increases, it receives less direct and less intense radiation?

When ice caps and glaciers melt, more water vapor is in the air?

Rising sea levels are a factor of?

Melting ____________ will release more CO2 into the atmosphere

An unforseen "chain of events" caused by a disturbance in a system?

What part of our planet is being pointed out?

__________ areas tend to get less snow than areas further inland because of the ocean

Volcanic eruptions contribute to climate change by blocking out the sun for extended time

Short term, daily conditions in an area

Climates are classified by an area's average temperature, average annual precipitation and what???

Glaciers melting leads to coastal?

A warm weather plant fossil was found in Antarctica indicates that Antarctica's climate was warmer in the past.

Temperate climate zones are always warm because the sun is directly overhead

The height above sea level?

The process by which gases trap heat and keep the Earth warm

This climate zone is the coldest because it gets less direct sunlight at both poles

Which fossil fuel has the least amount of carbon dioxide?

Long term patterns in an area; average, year-to year conditions

Carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere as plant matter is exposed.

Believe it or not, cows release _______ into the atmosphere

Changing weather patterns result from warming temperatures

This climate zone are in the middle latitudes?

Usual winter temperatures in New York are in the 30's, is an example of?

Scientists use fossils, tree rings, and ______ _______ to learn about past climates on Earth

The process of cutting down trees, often to create new land

As glaciers and ice caps melt, carbon dioxide will be released into the air

Ocean currents, large bodies of water, latitude, and altitude all contribute to an area's?

There is NO indication of a forest fire in this tree ring.

The air inside a greenhouse is warmer than the outside air because of the trapped solar energy inside

When a tree is cut down, it DOES NOT release CO2 into the atmosphere.

Climatologists study _________ to learn about the amount of precipitation of an area when viewing their cross sections

In the lab that we used the globe and the flashlight, where was the "perfect circle" located?

Wide tree rings = dry seasons

Greenhouse gases = water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, ozone, and __________ ?

Water along the east coast of the U.S. would be ________ than the Pacific due to the Gulf Stream