Past Climate Changes on Earth

What are the two main factors that influence climate change on Earth?

• a. energy, b. energy

• a. water, b. soil

• a. wind, b. humidity

• a. temperature, b. rainfall

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What happens when the energy entering and exiting the Earth system are in balance?

• Temperatures

• Rainfall increases

• Earthquakes occur

• Oceans evaporate

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Fill in the blanks on how Earth’s temperature is maintained. ____________ from the sun enters the Earth system, and some of this energy ____________ into space. When the amount of energy entering and exiting is ____________, the temperature stays the same.

• Energy, exits, balanced

• Heat, stays, equalized

• Light, reflects, constant

• Radiation, absorbs, stable

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What happens to Earth’s temperature when more energy enters the system than exits?

• increases, warms

• decreases, cools

• remains the same

• becomes unpredictable

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If the amount of sunlight reaching Earth decreased, what would happen to Earth's average temperature?

• It would increase

• It would decrease

• It would stay the same

• It would fluctuate unpredictably

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It would likely ____________, leading to a ______________ climate.

• Answers will vary based on the article. Likely answers: change, different.

• stay the same, similar.

• improve, better.

• worsen, harsher.

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Give an example from the text of how a change in energy affected Earth’s temperature.

• A decrease in solar energy caused Earth’s temperature to drop.

• An increase in rainfall caused Earth’s temperature to rise.

• A change in wind patterns caused Earth’s temperature to drop.

• A decrease in volcanic activity caused Earth’s temperature to rise.

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When more energy ____________ than ____________ in the past, the climate ____________.

• entered, exited, warmed/cooled/changed.

• exited, entered, stayed the same.

• entered, stayed, cooled.

• exited, entered, reversed.

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The article explains the relationship between energy balance and global temperature as:

• A balance between incoming and outgoing energy maintains global temperature.

• Increasing energy input always decreases global temperature.

• Energy balance has no effect on global temperature.

• Global temperature is only affected by human activity.

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The article states that global temperature ____________ as long as the energy entering the system ____________ the energy ____________ it.

• stays the same, equals, leaving.

• increases, is less than, entering.

• decreases, is more than, leaving.

• fluctuates, is not equal to, entering.

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