Computer Lab Exercise #2

Grade Your Climate IQ:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0409/feature1/quiz/index.html

1.      What aspects of tree rings, pack rats, and stalagmites do scientists study to learn about past climate change? 

           

2.     What is the difference between weather and climate?

3.      How does global climate change affect flora and fauna?

4.     How much carbon are humans responsible for releasing into the atmosphere each year?

 

5.    How much oil did the U.S. and Japan together consume in 2002? _________________________

6.      How does global warming differ from the greenhouse effect?

    

7.      What weather changes can result from global warming?

8.      How does sea ice help to regulate Earth's temperature?

Mike Ritter's Atmospheric & Oceanic Circulation Chapter:

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/circulation/outline.html

9.      Where and how do land-sea breezes form?

10.  Draw a diagram of and explain the summer and winter monsoon conditions in Asia.

           

11.  Why is the Los Angeles area especially susceptible to air pollution?

       

UCAR's "Children of the Tropics: El Niño and La Niña": http://www.ucar.edu/communications/factsheets/elnino/

12.  What does the acronym ENSO stand for? ________________________________

            

13.What happens to oceanic and atmospheric conditions during an El Niño event?

NASA's 1997-98 El Niño Images of Flood & Drought:

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/DynamicEarth/Chapter5/Cp5.htm

14. During this El Niño event, which areas experienced the following conditions:

a. extreme drought and wildfires:

      b. heavy rains and flooding:

     
      c.  unusually mild winter:

       

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