WSC SCIENCE FULL EXAM
1. Melting ice in the arctic and antarctic. As well as the fact that if you heat
up the ocean, water naturally starts to expand, increasing in volume.
ANS How Sea Levels Rise
2. A warmer climate creates an atmosphere that can collect, retain, and drop
more water. This is because warmer air can hold more water vapor than
colder hair, which means more rain. The summer getting hotter means that
more wildfires will occur. This affects weather patterns in such a way that
wet areas become wetter and dry areas drier.
ANS Extreme Weather Phenomena
3. A widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth
ANS Mass Extinc- tion
4. The deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth's natural system
ANS Geo- engineering
5. The process of capturing and storing CO2 from our atmosphere
ANS Carbon Sequestration
6. The process of managing the land to remove CO2 from the atmosphere,
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,by planting more trees (afforestration).
ANS Land use management
7. A charcoal like substance which is made by burning organic material
(bio- mass), with the potential of storing carbon for thousands of years.
ANS Biochar
8. Energy that comes from plants and animals
ANS Biomass
9. When basalt is split in half, releasing charged particles which create
bonds with the CO2, and the product can be stored away.
ANS Enhanced weathering
10.Captures CO2 produced from fossil fuel plants. Fossil fuels are heated
up, multiple other gasses and products are released through the exit tubes.
To capture the CO2, a chemical is sprayed that bonds only with the CO2 and
falls back down. This product is then heated up to the point where only pure
CO2 gas is released, and it is then compressed into a solid and sent to be
buried underground.
ANS Carbon dioxide capture
11.Scientists go to the ocean and dump iron fillings and multiple other
nutri- ents as a way to encourage phytoplankton growth. And since oceans
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, naturally absorb CO2, phytoplankton use CO2 to grow. Once they die, the
CO2 they used for life gets buried at the bottom at the ocean under the
sedimentary rock.
ANS Ocean fertilization
12. parallel winds push top warmer water away from the coast line to allow
for colder water from the bottom to reach the top of the ocean. This cold
water is filled with nutrients because of all the degraded fish at the bottom
of the ocean, and as a result the ocean becomes more productive.
Specifically the production of phytoplankton, which helps remove CO2 from
the atmosphere.-
ANS Ocean upwelling
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1. Melting ice in the arctic and antarctic. As well as the fact that if you heat
up the ocean, water naturally starts to expand, increasing in volume.
ANS How Sea Levels Rise
2. A warmer climate creates an atmosphere that can collect, retain, and drop
more water. This is because warmer air can hold more water vapor than
colder hair, which means more rain. The summer getting hotter means that
more wildfires will occur. This affects weather patterns in such a way that
wet areas become wetter and dry areas drier.
ANS Extreme Weather Phenomena
3. A widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth
ANS Mass Extinc- tion
4. The deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth's natural system
ANS Geo- engineering
5. The process of capturing and storing CO2 from our atmosphere
ANS Carbon Sequestration
6. The process of managing the land to remove CO2 from the atmosphere,
1/7
,by planting more trees (afforestration).
ANS Land use management
7. A charcoal like substance which is made by burning organic material
(bio- mass), with the potential of storing carbon for thousands of years.
ANS Biochar
8. Energy that comes from plants and animals
ANS Biomass
9. When basalt is split in half, releasing charged particles which create
bonds with the CO2, and the product can be stored away.
ANS Enhanced weathering
10.Captures CO2 produced from fossil fuel plants. Fossil fuels are heated
up, multiple other gasses and products are released through the exit tubes.
To capture the CO2, a chemical is sprayed that bonds only with the CO2 and
falls back down. This product is then heated up to the point where only pure
CO2 gas is released, and it is then compressed into a solid and sent to be
buried underground.
ANS Carbon dioxide capture
11.Scientists go to the ocean and dump iron fillings and multiple other
nutri- ents as a way to encourage phytoplankton growth. And since oceans
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, naturally absorb CO2, phytoplankton use CO2 to grow. Once they die, the
CO2 they used for life gets buried at the bottom at the ocean under the
sedimentary rock.
ANS Ocean fertilization
12. parallel winds push top warmer water away from the coast line to allow
for colder water from the bottom to reach the top of the ocean. This cold
water is filled with nutrients because of all the degraded fish at the bottom
of the ocean, and as a result the ocean becomes more productive.
Specifically the production of phytoplankton, which helps remove CO2 from
the atmosphere.-
ANS Ocean upwelling
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