ISP 203B FINAL UPDATED COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
RESOURCE
●● what are the 4 ecosystem services?
Answer: regulating, supporting, provisioning and cultural
●● If the weather report is on the temperature and precipitation for the
day, what kind of information is it telling us?
Answer: the weather (NOT climate)
●● light oxygen (O16) has 8 neutrons, heavy oxygen (O18) has 10. T or
F.
Answer: true
●● isotopes have a different number of neutrons, but the same number
of protons. T or F.
Answer: true
●● what are some contributions to sea level rising?
Answer: polar ice caps decreasing and ocean warming/expanding
,●● what is the description of a biome?
Answer: terrestrial ecosystems based on plant communities
●● what is the phenological event timing for birds vs. larvae?
Answer: birds depend on day length and larvae depend on temperature
●● global warming is a human enhanced greenhouse effect. T or F.
Answer: true
●● in the history of art, the atmosphere has evolved and undergone
changes in gas and temperature. T or F.
Answer: true
●● when solar output increases, greenhouse gases increase, leading to an
increase in the overall temperature of the earth. T or F.
Answer: false
●● the ratio of carbon isotopes is evidence that excess carbon is due to
human sources. T or F.
Answer: true
●● how can we tell data about past climates?
Answer: the number and type of organisms in ocean sediment
, air bubbles trapped in the ice core
●● what are the greenhouse gases?
Answer: carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor
gases that absorb infrared light.
●● what do carbon atoms combine with to form molecules that are the
basis for all life on earth?
Answer: oxygen and hydrogen
●● unequal heating of the earth produces what kind of currents that
result in large amounts of precipitation at the equator?
Answer: connection currents
●● why is the greenhouse gas effect important?
Answer: it moderates the temperature of earth, making it habitable
it combats the effects of the ice age
it combats the heat from the sun
●● what is true about oxygen isotopes?
Answer: the concentration of O18 in precipitation near the poles
decreases with temperature
(heavy oxygen always decreases)
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
RESOURCE
●● what are the 4 ecosystem services?
Answer: regulating, supporting, provisioning and cultural
●● If the weather report is on the temperature and precipitation for the
day, what kind of information is it telling us?
Answer: the weather (NOT climate)
●● light oxygen (O16) has 8 neutrons, heavy oxygen (O18) has 10. T or
F.
Answer: true
●● isotopes have a different number of neutrons, but the same number
of protons. T or F.
Answer: true
●● what are some contributions to sea level rising?
Answer: polar ice caps decreasing and ocean warming/expanding
,●● what is the description of a biome?
Answer: terrestrial ecosystems based on plant communities
●● what is the phenological event timing for birds vs. larvae?
Answer: birds depend on day length and larvae depend on temperature
●● global warming is a human enhanced greenhouse effect. T or F.
Answer: true
●● in the history of art, the atmosphere has evolved and undergone
changes in gas and temperature. T or F.
Answer: true
●● when solar output increases, greenhouse gases increase, leading to an
increase in the overall temperature of the earth. T or F.
Answer: false
●● the ratio of carbon isotopes is evidence that excess carbon is due to
human sources. T or F.
Answer: true
●● how can we tell data about past climates?
Answer: the number and type of organisms in ocean sediment
, air bubbles trapped in the ice core
●● what are the greenhouse gases?
Answer: carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor
gases that absorb infrared light.
●● what do carbon atoms combine with to form molecules that are the
basis for all life on earth?
Answer: oxygen and hydrogen
●● unequal heating of the earth produces what kind of currents that
result in large amounts of precipitation at the equator?
Answer: connection currents
●● why is the greenhouse gas effect important?
Answer: it moderates the temperature of earth, making it habitable
it combats the effects of the ice age
it combats the heat from the sun
●● what is true about oxygen isotopes?
Answer: the concentration of O18 in precipitation near the poles
decreases with temperature
(heavy oxygen always decreases)
