Exam 16: Earths Climate System

Which Milankovitch cycle lasts about 40,000 years?

-Analyze the concept map above and consider how this applies to biogeochemical cycles. Which selection is most appropriate for a biosphere to geosphere interaction (letter H on the diagram).

What will happen to a negative mass balance glacier?

(D-O) oscillations are slow changes to climate.

More sunlight reaches Earth's surface at the equator than at the poles.

Biogeophysical cycles link the hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere.

When analyzing temperature anomaly data from a set of climate proxies you notice a change in temperatures over a 23,000 year cycle. Which natural climate change cycle is most likely responsible for such a change?

Predict which of these biome groups would have the most biodiversity?

What would happen to alpine glaciers in the Europe if average annual temperatures decreased?

Globally, where would you be most likely to find type D and type E climates?

Which graph most accurately shows changes to biodiversity as a function of latitude?

You are analyzing a map location that is at the northern limit of a Hadley cell (southernmost Ferrel cell). Predict the climate conditions at that location.

How does the amount of ¹⁶O in forams compare to that in the oceans?

Predict what is presently happening to the mass balance of glaciers in the northern hemisphere.

The earth was warmer 12,000 years ago than today.

The Earth has been considerably warmer in the past than it is now.

It is possible for regional average temperatures to change by more than 5° C in less than a decade.

We are currently in a hot-house climate.

Climate is the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place.

What characterizes extreme climates?