Geology homework chp 3

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What is defined as a large, spiral shaped storm formed in the tropical latitudes of the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific in which winds exceed 119km/h (74mph)?

Hurricane

What term do we use to describe hurricanes over the Pacific ocean?

Typhoon

What term do we use to describe hurricanes over the Indian ocean and southern hemisphere?

Cyclone

What do we call a storm disturbance that circulates around a low-pressure center and has maximum sustained wind speeds of between 23-38 mph?

Tropical depression

What does the Saffir-Simpson scale measure?

Hurricane intensity

What is the vertical, downward-tapering cylinder of relatively calm, clear air, at the center of a hurricane?

Eye

What zone of a hurricane would have the most torrential rain?

Eye walls

Reno is at risk for hurricanes.

False

Hurricanes can be predicted and tracked.

True

What part of a hurricane causes the most destruction and deaths?

Storm surge

Thousands of articles in scientific journals conclude that indeed climate change is happening, that its impacts are catastrophic, and that human society plays a major role in causing it.

True

Around what percent of incoming solar radiation is absorbed Earth's surface?

50%

Which of the following is essential to life as we know it?

All of these

What refers to the conditions of the atmosphere (temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, wind speed, cloud cover, precipitation) at a given location at a given time?

Weather

What describes the average weather conditions, and range of those conditions, at a given location, over the course of years and decades?

Climate

What refers to a shift in one or more climate characteristics over years, centuries, decades or millennia?

Climate Change

Paleoclimate (ancient climate) can be determined by which of the following?

All of these

Greenhouse gas concentrations, ocean formation, immense volcanic eruptions, uplift of land, evolution of life, solar radiation changes, distribution of continents and configuration of ocean currents are all examples of what type of climate change?

Natural

Fill in the blank: Human population and _____________ are both rapidly increasing at parallel rates.

Carbon dioxide emissions

Continents and arctic regions are not warming as fast as mid-latitudes.

False

Carbon dioxide and what are increasing due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases?

Methane

What is the largest contributor to modern climate change?

Anthropogenic (human created) greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion

Fill in the blank: The Amazon Rainforest is being _________ burned down.

Intentionally

What is the largest sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide?

Ocean

Fill in the blank: Recent climate change is causing ocean temperature to rise and ocean pH to _______.

Lower

What is defined as a deficiency of freshwater within a region lasting long enough to cause harm to normal vegetation, crops, livestock, surface and underground water supplies, human health, and human activities?

Drought

What is defined as periods ranging from 2 days to several weeks of abnormally hot conditions that make people uncomfortable and some very sick?

Heat wave

What type of drought is due to a lack of sufficient water flowing into lakes, ponds, streams, or reservoirs?

Hydrological drought

What type of drought is particularly long, lasting 20 years or more?

Megadrought

What part of the united states is in a megadrought?

Southwest

What causes fire?

chemical reaction of gases with oxygen that produce heat and light

Which of these is not one of the three components of fire?

Drought

Fire is generally bad for Western United States forest ecosystems.

False

The 19th and 20th centuries were generally a time of what type of forest management in the United States?

Fire suppression

What type of fire risk is the Reno/Tahoe area in?

High

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