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Geology homework chp 3

Geology homework chp 3
35問 • 2年前
  • Zander Chavez
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  • 1

    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

  • 2

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

    Typhoon

  • 3

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

    Cyclone

  • 4

    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

  • 5

    What does the Saffir-Simpson scale measure?

    Hurricane intensity

  • 6

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

    Eye

  • 7

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

    Eye walls

  • 8

    Reno is at risk for hurricanes.

    False

  • 9

    Hurricanes can be predicted and tracked.

    True

  • 10

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

    Storm surge

  • 11

    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

  • 12

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

    50%

  • 13

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

    All of these

  • 14

    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

  • 15

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

    Climate

  • 16

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

    Climate Change

  • 17

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

    All of these

  • 18

    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

  • 19

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

    Carbon dioxide emissions

  • 20

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

    False

  • 21

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

    Methane

  • 22

    What is the largest contributor to modern climate change?

    Anthropogenic (human created) greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion

  • 23

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

    Intentionally

  • 24

    What is the largest sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide?

    Ocean

  • 25

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

    Lower

  • 26

    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

  • 27

    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

  • 28

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

    Hydrological drought

  • 29

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

    Megadrought

  • 30

    What part of the united states is in a megadrought?

    Southwest

  • 31

    What causes fire?

    chemical reaction of gases with oxygen that produce heat and light

  • 32

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

    Drought

  • 33

    Fire is generally bad for Western United States forest ecosystems.

    False

  • 34

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

    Fire suppression

  • 35

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

    High

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  • 1

    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

  • 2

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

    Typhoon

  • 3

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

    Cyclone

  • 4

    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

  • 5

    What does the Saffir-Simpson scale measure?

    Hurricane intensity

  • 6

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

    Eye

  • 7

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

    Eye walls

  • 8

    Reno is at risk for hurricanes.

    False

  • 9

    Hurricanes can be predicted and tracked.

    True

  • 10

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

    Storm surge

  • 11

    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

  • 12

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

    50%

  • 13

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

    All of these

  • 14

    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

  • 15

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

    Climate

  • 16

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

    Climate Change

  • 17

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

    All of these

  • 18

    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

  • 19

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

    Carbon dioxide emissions

  • 20

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

    False

  • 21

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

    Methane

  • 22

    What is the largest contributor to modern climate change?

    Anthropogenic (human created) greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion

  • 23

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

    Intentionally

  • 24

    What is the largest sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide?

    Ocean

  • 25

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

    Lower

  • 26

    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

  • 27

    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

  • 28

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

    Hydrological drought

  • 29

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

    Megadrought

  • 30

    What part of the united states is in a megadrought?

    Southwest

  • 31

    What causes fire?

    chemical reaction of gases with oxygen that produce heat and light

  • 32

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

    Drought

  • 33

    Fire is generally bad for Western United States forest ecosystems.

    False

  • 34

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

    Fire suppression

  • 35

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

    High