Greenhouse effect Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Problem to be solved (PTBS) correct answer: The elemental / core reason the service is valuable to the consumer of the service.It is often not an obvious or surface‐level reason. First one has to understand who the customers are. disruptive innovation correct answer: Companies that excel in one generation of technological‐driven business rarely succeed in the next generation Innovations initially are more expensive and/or less useful than current technology The customers of lea...

FTCE Prek-3- 2024 Exam with complete solution What would be the most meaningful science experience for kindergarten students? - ANSWER Engaging in self-generated, open-ended investigations Which of the following classroom activities is the best example of teaching inquiry-based science? - ANSWER Each student observes and draws a flower, makes conclusions about the various parts, and the teacher then guides class discussion 1st A first-grade teacher is preparing to teach about magnificati...

ERAU WX-201 Test 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass A geostationary satellite takes pictures of one area on Earth as it moves at the same rate as Earth's spin A star much hotter than our sun radiates more energy at _________ wavelengths and appears ________ shorter hotter a variable gas in the Earth's atmosphere is water vapor A vertical exchange of heat is called convection Air molecules are held near the earth's surface by ____. Gravity Air molecules selectively scatt...

5 disciplines important to environmental studies - correct answer1. uncertainty, risk and complexity 2. scale and jurisdiction 3. technology 4. politics, interest and power 5. values and ideas 6. governance greenhouse effect - correct answerthe warming of earths surface and lower atmosphere cause by inferred (thermal) energy that is absorbed and re-emitted by greenhouse gasses in enhanced greenhouse effect - correct answerthe impact on the climate from the additional heat retaine...

Arctic ozone dent - ANSWER Area of stratosphere over arctic region where ozone concentrations are low Climate change - ANSWER Directional change in climate over a period of 3+ decades Greenhouse effect - ANSWER Warming of the earth by gasses in atmosphere that absorb and rereadiate infrared energy emitted by earth's surface Greenhouse gasses - ANSWER Atmospheric gases that absorb and reradiate the infrared radiation emitted by earth's surface (H2O, CO2, CH4, and N2O) Aerosols - ANS...

Altimeter - Answer-An instrument that uses air pressure to record height, such as the height of an airplane. Anemometer - Answer-An instrument to measure wind speed. Angiosperm - Answer-A group of plants that produce seeds enclosed within an ovary, which may mature into a fruit. Annuals - Answer-Plants that die after one growing season. Asexual Reproduction - Answer-Reproduction involving ONE parent only. Atmosphere - Answer-The Earth's atmosphere is primarily nitrogen and oxygen...

PRAXIS II ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (5001) EXAM 2024 The attack on Pearl Harbor - correct answer What was a contributing factor to the United States entering World War II? The Battle of Fort Sumter - correct answer What event is recognized as the beginning of the American Civil War? The death of Cleopatra - correct answer What contributed most to the fall of the ancient Egyptians? The development of republican democracy - correct answer What is a lasting influence ancient Romans had on m...

Broward College EVR1009 Exam 2 Questions and Answers 100% Pass The San Andreas fault is an example of a transform boundary The atmosphere's second layer above Earth is called the stratosphere Identify the term that describes the blanket of gases surrounding the earth! atmosphere Harmful UV radiation can cause skin cancer, eye cataracts, immune system damage, sunburn When a continental plate and an oceanic plate collide they can form ___________; this type of boundary is called a/an ________...

14: Thermocline thin layer where temperature changes more rapidly with depth than it does in the layers above or below pynocline is the cline or layer where the density gradient is greatest within a body of water source of sea salts chemical weathering of rock what factors control the salinity of seawater? precipitation and evaporation what factors control the density of seawater? temp and salinity 15: beach drift Type of erosion where sediment moves in a...

APES Unit 9 Reviewstratospheric ozone layer - correct answer is important to the evolution of life on Earth and the continued health and survival of life on Earth Stratospheric ozone depletion - correct answer is caused by anthropogenic factors, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and natural factors, such as the melting of ice crystals in the atmosphere at the beginning of the Antarctic spring how does a decrease in stratospheric ozone affect UV radiation on Earth? - correct answer it inc...