Envi. Science - Unit 2 REVIEW

During a(n) ____ event, trade winds are much stronger than usual.

• El Nino

• La Nina

• Normal

• Partly sunny

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Both El Nino and La Nina have this in common

• Influence birds that migrate over the ocean

• Influence rainy / dry weather world wide

• The weather at the polar regions

• The directions that ships travel in the oceans

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During an El Nino, trade winds are typically...

• about average

• stronger

• weaker

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These gases, such as carbon dioxide, trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere causing global warming

• Global warming gases
• Hot House gases
• Green House gases
• Thermal pollution

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This process is responsible for most environmental problems of excess nitrogen and phosphorus entering streams, lakes and oceans.

• decomposition
• emissions from automobiles
• agriculture and house hold runoff
• photosynthesis

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Which is NOT a way that nitrogen compounds are added to the soil?

• Decay of dead organisms
• Denitrification
• Animal waste
• Nitrogen-fixation

Carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere by

• Burning fossil fuels 
• Cellular respiration
• Decomposing organic matter
• All answers are correct

The graph shows us that

• the earth temperature is always increasing

• the earth's temperature has steadily increased since 1900

• the earth's temperature has steadily rising since the 1960s

• the earth's temperature decreased during the 19th and 20th centuries

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Which of the gases is NOT a greenhouse gas?

• water vapour

• carbon monoxide

• carbon dioxide

• methane

Which variable of the Milankovitch Cycles is animated here?

• eccentricity

• obliquity

• precession

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