SCI 225 - Exam 2: Study Guide with complete solutions 2024/2025

SCI 225 - Exam 2: Study GuideMilankovitch - correct answer related orbital cycles to ice ages charting the ice ages of the Pleistocene - correct answer method by which Milankovitch developed model of Earth's movement and climate change Milankovitch cycles - correct answer eccentricity, obliquity, precession heat, cold - correct answer in relation to eccentricity, _ causes change, not _ Perihelion - correct answer the moment when the Earth is the closest to the sun in its orbit Aphelion - correct answer the moment when the Earth is farthest away from the sun obliquity - correct answer _ affects distribution of solar radiation received at Earth's surface greater - correct answer a (greater or lesser) tilt supports inter glacial periods lesser - correct answer a (greater or lesser) tilt supports glacial periods precession - correct answer has no direct impact on anything ice cores - correct answer supports ice ages balanced, warm - correct answer the more _ O16 is to O18, in the ocean, the more _ the water will be colder - correct answer if there is more O16 in the ice core data than O18, the water will be _