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Science of Global Warming
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Instructions:
Answer 35 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A river of ice that under pressure can deform and flow plastically
calving
Vostok
greenhouse gases
glacier
2. Separating or breaking so that a part becomes detached
calving
chaotic
anomaly
calcium carbonate
3. A time interval characterized by lack of glacial ice in mid-latitudes
aerosol
anomaly
albedo
interglacial
4. Relationships between and among living organisms and their non-living environment
ecosystem
hypothesis
calving
forcing
5. Made of rock
Vostok
lithic
hydrologic cycle
glacier
6. Factors that drive or force a system to change
forcing
atmosphere
transpiration
methane
7. The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from CO2 and water using light as an energy source
evaporation
photosynthesis
anomaly
weather
8. A wind-deposited sediment consisting mostly of silt
chaotic
Vostok
loess
hydrologic cycle
9. Water cycle
transpiration
varve
hydrologic cycle
carbon dioxide
10. The process by Which molecules of a liquid become a gas
evaporation
aerosol
weather
precipitation
11. Small or microscopic organisms
transpiration
plankton
Vostok
anomaly
12. Impossible to predict
carbon dioxide
precipitation
chaotic
photosynthesis
13. The mass per unit volume of a substance under specified conditions of pressure and temperature
forcing
weather
density
interglacial
14. A mass of glacier ice that covers a wider area
plankton
calcium carbonate
chaotic
ice sheet
15. The state of the atmosphere at a particular time
density
loess
Vostok
weather
16. Amount of solar radiation received on a given area
hydrologic cycle
insolation
forcing
interglacial
17. The evaporation of water from plants
ecosystem
calving
photosynthesis
transpiration
18. A general term for the age-depth relationship in ice
calving
atmosphere
chronology
evaporation
19. A molecule that has one carbon and two oxygen
carbon dioxide
interglacial
weather
density
20. An odorless - colorless - flammable gas that is a greenhouse gas
ecosystem
varve
Vostok
methane
21. Caused by actions of humans
forcing
varve
anthropogenic
chaotic
22. Any one of the gases found in the atmosphere
greenhouse gases
precipitation
ice sheet
anomaly
23. The average weather
chronology
climate
insolation
chaotic
24. Annual layer of sediment deposited in an ocean or lake
greenhouse gases
anomaly
glacier
varve
25. A deviation from the average
anomaly
precipitation
transpiration
atmosphere
26. A suspension of solid or liquid particles in a gas
climate
Vostok
aerosol
loess
27. Lacking moisture
atmosphere
arid
Vostok
precipitation
28. Related to salt
albedo
glacier
carbon dioxide
haline
29. A suggested explanation for a phenomena that requires further testing by scientific research
interglacial
hypothesis
Vostok
precipitation
30. Any of the different forms of element having the same number of protons
arid
atmosphere
isotope
hypothesis
31. Rain - snow - sleet - and other forms of water falling from the sky
methane
precipitation
calcium carbonate
interglacial
32. Site in Antarctica where a 400000 year long ice core was collected
evaporation
Vostok
plankton
forcing
33. A molecule that has calcium - carbon and oxygen
anthropogenic
calcium carbonate
interglacial
arid
34. The whole mass of gasses surrounding the earth
haline
anomaly
atmosphere
albedo
35. The reflectivity of a surface
isotope
albedo
climate
chronology