Review sheet for Quiz #6

Topic to be covered on the quiz:

Paleoclimatology, air pollution, and atmospheric optical phenomena

Sample questions / concepts

1. List four significant greenhouse gases.
2. A major part of the greenhouse effect is that it involves the absorption of the earth's outgoing radiation by atmospheric gases. What component is most important in this absorption?
3. If the tilt of the earth's axis changes, how does this affect the temperature change across the seasons?
4. List three factors associated with the astronomical theory of climate change.
5. Astronomical causes of climate change occur with cycles of how long?
6. Who first developed and strongly advocated the astronomical theory of climate change?
7. Where (on what) are oxygen isotope measurements made?
8. List four lines of evidence that can provide data about past climates.
9. List three methods by which sea level might rise.
10. What does oxygen isotope analysis measure?
11. Approximately how long do past climate data measurements made with instruments extend?
12. Explain how global warming can cause increased rainfall, flooding, droughts, and fires?
13. What are some forms of air pollution?
14. What gases are considered pollutants and why?
15. What is air pollution?
16. What is smog and how is it produced?
17. What is vog?
18. How are gasses like SO₂, NO_x, and CO₂ harmful to lakes and fish?
19. How do the northern and southern lights form?
20. What are mirages?
21. Explain haloes, glories, and rainbows.
    

Key Words

carbon	CH4	climatology
CO2	dendrochronology	eccentricity
global warming	greenhouse effect	H2O
ice cap melting	ice core	isotope
obliquity	oxygen	paleoclimatology
pH	pollen	precession
primary	sea level	secondary
smog	thermal expansion	vog
volatile organic compounds	rainbow	glory
northern lights	southern lights