Science
CHAPTER 22
THE ATMOSPHERE, CLIMATE, AND GLOBAL WARMING
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1) _____ Long-term weather trends associated with a particular setting or location, for example arid conditions downwind of a large mountain range
Answer: e
2) _____ Study of the global-scale connections between atmosphere, oceans, biosphere, climate, and the Earth
Answer: a
3) _____ Computer simulations designed to predict changes in the atmosphere and in the Earth’s climate
Answer: c
4) The persistent trend of increasing temperatures over three decades is an indication that global warming is really happening. What was the warmest decade since temperatures have been recorded?
a) the 1990s
b) the 1980s
c) the 1970s
d) the 1960s
e) the 1950s
Answer: a
5) Which of the following is an example of carbon-dioxide sequestration?
a) smoke-stack emissions
b) the injection of carbon dioxide into subsurface geologic reservoirs
c) the reversal of global warming
d) scrubbing carbon dioxide out of power-plant emissions
e) emissions trading
Answer: b
6) The carbon-dioxide content in the Earth’s atmosphere before 1500 A.D. was between 200 and 300 ppm. The carbon dioxide content today is about 450 ppm. Which single historical development can be blamed for this increase?
a) the invention of agriculture
b) the Industrial Revolution
c) the American Revolution
d) splitting of the atom
e) the election of George Bush
Answer: b
7) Which of the following is a major effect of El Niño:
a) heavy rains along the western coast of South America
b) droughts in California
c) increased tooth decay
d) global warming of the Earth
e) widening of the ozone hole
Answer: a
8) The “atmospheric window”:
I. allows part of Earth’s back-radiation to escape into space
II. is a seasonal hole where stratospheric ozone is reduced to near zero
III. Is a gap in the atmospheric absorption spectrum, between the absorption dominated by water
THE ATMOSPHERE, CLIMATE, AND GLOBAL WARMING
_______________________________________________
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1) _____ Long-term weather trends associated with a particular setting or location, for example arid conditions downwind of a large mountain range
Answer: e
2) _____ Study of the global-scale connections between atmosphere, oceans, biosphere, climate, and the Earth
Answer: a
3) _____ Computer simulations designed to predict changes in the atmosphere and in the Earth’s climate
Answer: c
4) The persistent trend of increasing temperatures over three decades is an indication that global warming is really happening. What was the warmest decade since temperatures have been recorded?
a) the 1990s
b) the 1980s
c) the 1970s
d) the 1960s
e) the 1950s
Answer: a
5) Which of the following is an example of carbon-dioxide sequestration?
a) smoke-stack emissions
b) the injection of carbon dioxide into subsurface geologic reservoirs
c) the reversal of global warming
d) scrubbing carbon dioxide out of power-plant emissions
e) emissions trading
Answer: b
6) The carbon-dioxide content in the Earth’s atmosphere before 1500 A.D. was between 200 and 300 ppm. The carbon dioxide content today is about 450 ppm. Which single historical development can be blamed for this increase?
a) the invention of agriculture
b) the Industrial Revolution
c) the American Revolution
d) splitting of the atom
e) the election of George Bush
Answer: b
7) Which of the following is a major effect of El Niño:
a) heavy rains along the western coast of South America
b) droughts in California
c) increased tooth decay
d) global warming of the Earth
e) widening of the ozone hole
Answer: a
8) The “atmospheric window”:
I. allows part of Earth’s back-radiation to escape into space
II. is a seasonal hole where stratospheric ozone is reduced to near zero
III. Is a gap in the atmospheric absorption spectrum, between the absorption dominated by water