WorksheetsEarth's Dynamic Climate Review
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 13mins
Seasons are caused by...
The elliptical orbit of the planet around the sun
The tilt of the planet
The curve of the earth
The oceans currents
Earth's seasons can change over 100,000 years as the orbit changes.
True
False
The earth can absorb and store heat from the sun. This is known as.
Carbon sink
Heat sink
Heat absorption
Albedo
Which of the following are greenhouse gases?
Carbon dioxide
Methane
Water vapor
All answers are correct
How is the greenhouse effect produced?
When solar energy trespasses the atmosphere.
When some energy is reflected back to earth.
When the green house is burned.
When the sun doesn't emit radiation.
This Greenhouse gas is produced when certain bacteria break down nitrogen-rich compounds for food.
Water vapour
Carbon dioxide
Methane
Nitrous oxide
____________ absorbs and stores atmospheric crabon
Heat sink
Carbon absorption
Carbon stores
Carbon sink
In the ocean cold water
sinks at the equator
rises at the poles
sinks at the poles
keeps water from circulating
Anthropogenic means
mass cutting trees
human caused
the ocean currents
sun flares
Samples of permanent ice, used to meausre historical levels of greenhouse gases, taken from the Arctic or Antarctic
carbon footprint
bioclimate profile
ice cores
global climate model
Tropical storms become more severe as
oceans become warmer
the axis of the earth tilts
more people move into that area
Polar ice-caps, permafrost or mountain glaciers
Cryosphere
Geosphere
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
Atmosphere
Heat is concentrated at
the poles
the equator
the mid-Atlantic ridge
Bacteria in the ocean produces which greenhouse gas
Carbon dioxide
methane
water vapour
nitrous oxide
London England is warmer than Barrie due to
the location to the equator
the gulf current
the curve of the land
it is not warmer
