Unit 2: Global Climate — Vulnerability and Resilience
Topic 2.1: Causes of global climate change Questions
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Briefly explain what is meant by global dimming.
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The data show the average CO2 emitted per person in a high-income country, by age.
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Outline what is meant by terrestrial albedo.
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State two naturally present greenhouse gases that are not carbon dioxide.
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Explain how more livestock farming increases greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Outline two parts of the Earth's energy balance.
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Outline how the Earth maintains a stable temperature through its energy balance.
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Explain how a change in the Sun's output can alter Earth's energy balance.
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Which activity is a major source of rising methane?
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Distinguish between the natural greenhouse effect and the enhanced greenhouse effect.
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The ice-albedo feedback is an example of a…
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Explain why the Earth's surface emits long-wave radiation while the Sun emits short-wave radiation.
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Explain how the permafrost-methane feedback can amplify global warming.
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Distinguish between a positive and a negative feedback loop in the climate system, with an example of each.
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Albedo describes how much a surface…
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Explain two reasons why expanding trade in emerging economies has raised greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Global dimming is caused mainly by particles that…
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Explain two different reasons why methane emissions are rising.
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What does the global energy balance describe?
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Which natural driver tends to cool the planet?
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