Chapter 15 Climate Change

climate; region

• The long-term, prevailing atmospheric conditions
• weather
• el nino
• la nina

Volume of warm air

• able to hold more water vapor than the same volume of cold air
• cold air
• stationary front
• warm front

CO2 has increased overall, although there are seasonal fluctuations

• Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels since 1958
• Cod has decreased
• methane decreased
• all of the above

Two consequences of rise in global temperatures

• increase of storms and increase of droughts

• decrease in storms and increase of droughts

• decrease in length of storms increase of droughts

• all of the above

Absorbance of solar energy the the atmosphere

• of infrared radiation by carbon dioxide and water vapor

• absorbed by ozone

• absorbed by trophosphere

• absorbed by stratosphere

weather

• atmospheric conditions on a given day

• long term weather

• long term and short term weather

• all of the above

The ozone layer protects living organisms on Earth by

• Blocking solar UV radiation
• absorbing heat
• absorbing radiation
• all of the above

The layer of atmosphere immediately above the earth where weather events occur.

• troposphere
• stratosphere
• mesosphere
• ozone

23.5 degree tilt of Earth's axis

• Seasonal changes caused by
• weather
• wind speed
• climate

Historical evidence suggest that substantive climate change can occur....

• short periods as few decades
• long periods
• seasons change
• climate never changes