Earth science test review

Question

The main difference between weather and climate is that ________.

Answer 1

weather is the regional pattern based on latitude and humidity while climate is the daily pattern based on season.

Answer 2

climate is the regional pattern based on latitude and humidity while weather is the daily pattern based on season

Answer 3

weather is the daily variations that actually occur at a location and climate is the general pattern of weather over time

Answer 4

climate is the daily variations that actually occur at a location and weather is the general pattern of climate over time

Answer 5

climate is a political opinion while weather is reality

Answer 6

September 21

Answer 7

December 21

Answer 8

seasonal changes in the angle of the sun above the horizon

Answer 9

differences in the amount of daylight

Answer 10

the elliptical orbit of the earth

Answer 11

the changing tilt angle of the earth

Answer 12

The location does not affect the range of temperatures.

Answer 13

near 60 degrees north or south latitude

Answer 14

near the Poles

Answer 15

near the tropic of Cancer or Capricorn

Answer 16

near the equator

Answer 17

September 21 or 22

Answer 18

March 21 or 22

Answer 19

December 21 or 22

Answer 20

June 21 or 22

Answer 21

Greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere absorbing radiation from the Earth's surface, and preventing much of it escaping into space

Answer 22

Greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere absorbing solar radiation

Answer 23

Too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

Answer 24

Too much heat in the atmosphere

Answer 25

The path of the Earth around the sun

Answer 26

Thawing permafrost

Answer 27

Volcanic eruptions

Answer 28

Nitrous oxide

Answer 29

Carbon dioxide

Answer 30

Water vapor

Answer 31

Nitrous oxide

Answer 32

Carbon dioxide

Answer 33

Trichlorofluoromethane

Answer 34

A decrease in the sea ice around Antarctica

Answer 35

Fewer cold days and frosts, and more frequent heatwaves over the last 50 years

Answer 36

0.17m rise in sea level during the 20th century

Answer 37

0.74°C increase in average global temperature over the last century

Answer 38

Saudi Arabia

Answer 39

United States

Answer 40

Energy supply

Answer 41

Agriculture

Answer 42

About 0.004 percent

Answer 43

about 4 percent

Answer 44

About 0.04 percent

Answer 45

About 0.4 percent

Answer 46

The tropics

Answer 47

Antarctica

Answer 48

The Arctic

Answer 49

Australia and the South Pacific

Answer 50

produce more carbon dioxide which generates more plant growth.

Answer 51

absorb some of the incoming radiation from the Sun.

Answer 52

absorb some of the energy Earth radiates out into space

Answer 53

act as a shield that reflects some of the incoming radiation from the Sun

Answer 54

nitrogen (N2)

Answer 55

carbon dioxide (CO2)

Answer 56

water (H2O)

Answer 57

nitrogen oxide (N2O)

Answer 58

eccentricity

Answer 59

axial tilt

Answer 60

solar obliqueness

Answer 61

precession

Answer 62

current carbon dioxide concentrations are far outside of Earth’s recent operating range.

Answer 63

Earth’s climate has been remarkably stable for the past 10,000 years

Answer 64

Earth’s climate shows a history of abrupt and rapid changes in temperature

Answer 65

all of the answers listed here.

Answer 66

atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are currently well within Earth’s recent operating range

Answer 67

past climate changes have caused societies to collapse

Answer 68

variation in energy output from the Sun is too small to explain current warming

Answer 69

Earth is currently in a strong warming trend

Answer 70

increased flooding during the winter months

Answer 71

colder winters

Answer 72

less sunlight during the agricultural growing season

Answer 73

less melt water to sustain streams during the summer months

Answer 74

shortening of the agricultural growing season

Answer 75

more difficult for marine organisms to secret their own protective shells.

Answer 76

causes the oceans to become even more saline, thereby reducing ocean circulation

Answer 77

increases the rate of evaporation of seawater

Answer 78

makes it unsafe for humans to go swimming in the ocean

Answer 79

temperature

Answer 80

vegetation

Answer 81

have nothing to do with climate models

Answer 82

disagree with climate models

Answer 83

complicate climate models

Answer 84

support climate models

Answer 85

subtropics

Answer 86

lower middle-latitudes

Answer 87

polar regions

Answer 88

higher middle-latitudes

Answer 89

infiltration

Answer 90

evaporation

Answer 91

transpiration

Answer 92

condensation

Answer 93

a boundary between unsaturated bedrock below and saturated bedrock above

Answer 94

a boundary between saturated rock below and unsaturated rock above

Answer 95

a boundary between unsaturated bedrock and an underground river

Answer 96

an underground mass of partly saturated rock

Answer 97

perched water tables

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