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SCI 225 Final Exam Questions With Correct
Answers 100% Verified.
Deltas - Answer✔deposits of sand and soil at the mouth of a river form
What are the 5 consequences of GCC from the human perspective - Answer✔- water
- food
- health
- coasts
- ecosystems
What is the difference between hypothesis and predictions - Answer✔Hypotheses explain why
and lead to predictions
Predictions are estimations made from observations/hypotheses
What are scientific models and what types can be used? - Answer✔Set of ideas that describe a
process, help simplify systems, represent selected parts of a whole, explain and predict natural
phenomena, and guide future research.
- simulations
- conceptual
- mathematical
weather - Answer✔Local atmospheric conditions (precipitation and temperatures) over a short
period of time. Highly variable hour to hour and day to day.
Climate - Answer✔Regional atmospheric conditions over 30 years. "Average" weather
throughout the year.
Latitudinal Distribution - Answer✔Stronger or hotter at the equator and less at the poles.
Temperature, precipitation, etc. traveling N/S will get different weather/climates
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Biomes - Answer✔Global associations of plants and animals, largely determined by climate,
primarily temperatures and precipitation. (Taiga, savanna, rainforest, deciduous forest)
inquiry - Answer✔Doing science to learn science
Current CO2 concentration - Answer✔416 ppm
The greenhouse effect - Answer✔- Sun emits solar radiation
- 1/3 is reflected and 2/3 is absorbed
- infrared radiation is emitted from the earths surface
- some passes through atmosphere but most is absorbed and re-emitted as Greenhouse
radiation
- this greenhouse radiation warms the earth
greenhouse gases - Answer✔Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water
vapor, and ozone in the atmosphere which are involved in the greenhouse effect.
Goldilocks Principle - Answer✔Earth is just the right temperature
Effect of volcanoes - Answer✔Short term cooling as ash blocks sunlight, long term warming
from co2 and water vapor
thermohaline circulation - Answer✔Movement of ocean water caused by density difference
brought about by variations in temperature and salinity. As ocean water freezes at the poles it
concentrates salt, and the colder, denser water sinks.
Albedo - Answer✔the reflectivity of a surface
How are earths systems related to the climate? - Answer✔Earth systems are subsystems of the
climate system
Alfred Wegener - Answer✔A German scientist who proposed the theroy of continental drift
using evidence from fossils, rock types, and glacial striations & erratics
Law of Superposition - Answer✔The geologic principle that states that in horizontal layers of
sedimentary rock, each layer is older than the layer above it and younger than the layer below
it.
Harry Hess - Answer✔Proposed the theory of sea-floor spreading (mid ocean ridges, produces
basalt- oceanic crust, subduction)
Paleomagnetism - Answer✔The study of the alignment of magnetic minerals in rock,specifically
as it relates to the reversal of Earth's magnetic poles; also the magnetic properties that rock
requires during formation
SCI 225 Final Exam Questions With Correct
Answers 100% Verified.
Deltas - Answer✔deposits of sand and soil at the mouth of a river form
What are the 5 consequences of GCC from the human perspective - Answer✔- water
- food
- health
- coasts
- ecosystems
What is the difference between hypothesis and predictions - Answer✔Hypotheses explain why
and lead to predictions
Predictions are estimations made from observations/hypotheses
What are scientific models and what types can be used? - Answer✔Set of ideas that describe a
process, help simplify systems, represent selected parts of a whole, explain and predict natural
phenomena, and guide future research.
- simulations
- conceptual
- mathematical
weather - Answer✔Local atmospheric conditions (precipitation and temperatures) over a short
period of time. Highly variable hour to hour and day to day.
Climate - Answer✔Regional atmospheric conditions over 30 years. "Average" weather
throughout the year.
Latitudinal Distribution - Answer✔Stronger or hotter at the equator and less at the poles.
Temperature, precipitation, etc. traveling N/S will get different weather/climates
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Biomes - Answer✔Global associations of plants and animals, largely determined by climate,
primarily temperatures and precipitation. (Taiga, savanna, rainforest, deciduous forest)
inquiry - Answer✔Doing science to learn science
Current CO2 concentration - Answer✔416 ppm
The greenhouse effect - Answer✔- Sun emits solar radiation
- 1/3 is reflected and 2/3 is absorbed
- infrared radiation is emitted from the earths surface
- some passes through atmosphere but most is absorbed and re-emitted as Greenhouse
radiation
- this greenhouse radiation warms the earth
greenhouse gases - Answer✔Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water
vapor, and ozone in the atmosphere which are involved in the greenhouse effect.
Goldilocks Principle - Answer✔Earth is just the right temperature
Effect of volcanoes - Answer✔Short term cooling as ash blocks sunlight, long term warming
from co2 and water vapor
thermohaline circulation - Answer✔Movement of ocean water caused by density difference
brought about by variations in temperature and salinity. As ocean water freezes at the poles it
concentrates salt, and the colder, denser water sinks.
Albedo - Answer✔the reflectivity of a surface
How are earths systems related to the climate? - Answer✔Earth systems are subsystems of the
climate system
Alfred Wegener - Answer✔A German scientist who proposed the theroy of continental drift
using evidence from fossils, rock types, and glacial striations & erratics
Law of Superposition - Answer✔The geologic principle that states that in horizontal layers of
sedimentary rock, each layer is older than the layer above it and younger than the layer below
it.
Harry Hess - Answer✔Proposed the theory of sea-floor spreading (mid ocean ridges, produces
basalt- oceanic crust, subduction)
Paleomagnetism - Answer✔The study of the alignment of magnetic minerals in rock,specifically
as it relates to the reversal of Earth's magnetic poles; also the magnetic properties that rock
requires during formation
