D199 WGU Questions and Correct Detailed Answers
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Quiz: in the last 10,000 years:
Ans: humans began modifying the land surface for growing food with advent
of agricultural revolution
Quiz: the agricultural revolution roughly
Ans: coincides with a warm interglacial period that began about 11,700 years
ago which is called the HOLOCENE era (warm stable climate)
Quiz: the last 270 years of the holocene ushered into the
Ans: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION when climate pollution began to increase
dramatically
Quiz: the industrial revolution was powered by
Ans: fossil fuels
Quiz: what began after world war II?
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, Ans: the great acceleration (1950-present)
-caused depletion in the ozone layer
-After 1950, the biodiversity of species started decreasing and the extinction of
species accelerated
Quiz: The Great Acceleration marks the beginning of
Ans: Homo sapiens' truly massive global imprint on the planet
-The climate has already warmed by 1°C since 1900.
-If humans continue with business-as-usual consumption of fossil fuels, the
warming between 1900 and 2100 could exceed 4°C.
Quiz: the greenhouse effect.
Ans: It is this trapping of heat energy that otherwise would have escaped to
space through the atmosphere
-allows solar radiation to enter
-the blanket effect
Quiz: is the greenhouse effect real?
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, Ans: -Satellites routinely measure the incoming solar energy and the outgoing
heat energy from the planet
-Independently, the heat energy emitted by the surface has been estimated
using observed surface temperatures on land and sea.
Quiz: aerosols
Ans: -Visible smoke and smog are made up of tiny particles
-carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases cannot be seen by the human eye
-Most of these aerosols reflect sunlight and have a cooling effect
Quiz: black carbon aerosols (a major component of soot)
Ans: -absorb solar radiation entering the atmosphere and have a warming
effect.
-warms the climate by absorbing solar energy rather than infrared energy from
the planet
Quiz: super pollutants
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Quiz: in the last 10,000 years:
Ans: humans began modifying the land surface for growing food with advent
of agricultural revolution
Quiz: the agricultural revolution roughly
Ans: coincides with a warm interglacial period that began about 11,700 years
ago which is called the HOLOCENE era (warm stable climate)
Quiz: the last 270 years of the holocene ushered into the
Ans: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION when climate pollution began to increase
dramatically
Quiz: the industrial revolution was powered by
Ans: fossil fuels
Quiz: what began after world war II?
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, Ans: the great acceleration (1950-present)
-caused depletion in the ozone layer
-After 1950, the biodiversity of species started decreasing and the extinction of
species accelerated
Quiz: The Great Acceleration marks the beginning of
Ans: Homo sapiens' truly massive global imprint on the planet
-The climate has already warmed by 1°C since 1900.
-If humans continue with business-as-usual consumption of fossil fuels, the
warming between 1900 and 2100 could exceed 4°C.
Quiz: the greenhouse effect.
Ans: It is this trapping of heat energy that otherwise would have escaped to
space through the atmosphere
-allows solar radiation to enter
-the blanket effect
Quiz: is the greenhouse effect real?
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, Ans: -Satellites routinely measure the incoming solar energy and the outgoing
heat energy from the planet
-Independently, the heat energy emitted by the surface has been estimated
using observed surface temperatures on land and sea.
Quiz: aerosols
Ans: -Visible smoke and smog are made up of tiny particles
-carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases cannot be seen by the human eye
-Most of these aerosols reflect sunlight and have a cooling effect
Quiz: black carbon aerosols (a major component of soot)
Ans: -absorb solar radiation entering the atmosphere and have a warming
effect.
-warms the climate by absorbing solar energy rather than infrared energy from
the planet
Quiz: super pollutants
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