Climate Change - Climate Components, Heat Transfer, and Convection Currents

Tropical zones

Tropical zones

What are closer to the sun than the poles are and get more solar energy and are more warmed up? Answer with a single words or term.

Oceans

What are good heat sinks because water can absorbs 5 times more energy than soil? Answer with a single words or term.

Canada

________ has 15 terrestrial and 5 aquatic ecozones all varying in sizes.

Animals

________ eat the plants using the stored carbon for their growth and survival.

Scientists

________ have found that the amount of ice at the poles, in greenland and in glacies around the world is decreasing rapidly.

Poor

________ growing conditions, trees are stunted due to cold temperatures, short growing seasons, acidic soil, frequent forest fires.

Large eruptions

________ release huge amounts of gases and volcanic ash into the atmosphere.

Radiation doesnt

________ require a medium but conduction cant take place without one.

atmospheric concentration of CO2

The ________ has increased 31 % since 1750 (when it was 280ppm)

Climatologisits

________ use sophisticated computer programs to model Earths climate.

Earth

________ has been through 5 major ice ages in the past 2.4 billion years.

extinction of dinosaurs

What was likely caused by climate change brought on by a large asteroid hitting Earth? Answer with a single words or term.

Factor

________ controlling the Earths climate system.

Particles

________ vibrate but dont move to another location.

IPCC

________ published several small reports and updates on the developments of climate change.

Blanket of gas

The amount of solar energy hitting the earth doesnt change very quickly. ________ surrounding the Earth.

sunspot cycle

What is unlikely to cause changes of major climate change? Answer with a single words or term.

Trees

Multiple Effects. ________ are carbon sinks because they remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Ocean

________ absorbs hear and moves it around the globe in currents (determines the Earths climate)

noticeable effects

One method is temperature anomalies- is a temperature value obtained by comparing the measured temperature to some average temperature. The most ________ are the melting of ice.

Hydrosphere term references

________ fo all the water in Earths system.

upward drafts

The ________ are often strong enough to allow large birds like vultures and hawks to soar upwards in circles for hours.

Past climate

Ice cores. ________ can be predicted by studying the air bubbles trapped in samples of very old ice.

Section of the Earths crust

________ are called plate which moves up a few centimetres a year.

Wind

What is the movement of air in the atmosphere as a result of convection currents? Answer with a single words or term.