Ice Core

What are two things that ice cores reveal?

• nitrogen and hydrogen levels

• carbon dioxide and global temperatures

• NC temperatures

  and fossil records

• oxygen and nitrogen levels

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

What information do the layers in the ice cores provide?

• Provide information related to Trilobites

• Provides a record of year and seasons

• Provides information related to the extinction of the Trilobite

• Provides information related to the physical characteristics of organisms

What type of sampling is used when working with ice cores?

• Relative Dating

• Absolute Dating

• Extinction

• Evolution

Ice cores are most useful for determining

• the atmospheric composition in the past

• number of Trilobites in the past

• number of species in the past

• geographical species of the past

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

Where do scientists typically drill for ice cores?

• in the oceans

• in the polar ice and glaciers

• on the Colorado Plateau

• in the atmosphere

Which statement is true?

• Ice cores are layers of ice and snow built up over thousands of years.

• Ice core drilling take place in the bottom of the ocean

• Ice core drilling takes place on all continents except Anartica.

• Ice core drilling takes place on the Colorado Plateau.

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-2

NGSS.HS-ESS2-5

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

What is the best description of air pockets as it relates to ice cores?

• grains of ice become cut off from each other and produce bubbles in the ice.

• a region of low pressure causing an aircraft to lose altitude suddenly

• strong updraft, downdraft

• or sudden fall in headwind or tailwind encountered by an aircraft in flight

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-5

Which of the following provide clues about local precipitation?

• thickness of ice

• particles in ice

• temperatures of the ice

• color of the ice

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-5

Ice cores contain information about

• Atmospheric Conditions

• Precipitation

• tectonic plates of the entire Earth

• climate of the entire Earth

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

The most common continents for ice core drilling is

• Europe & Asia

• North America & South America

• Greenland & Anartica

• Africa & South America