Unit 18 | Student Practice Quizzes | Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition

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Question 1:

Earth has had considerable temperature variations over the past ________ years.
a) 1 million
b) 100,000
c) 65,000
d) 11,000
e) 140

Question 2:

From 1940 to 1960, the Earth experienced a ________.
a) worldwide drought
b) cooling trend
c) warming trend
d) climatic reversal
e) deglaciation

Question 3:

Fifteen thousand years ago, the Earth was experiencing ________ period.
a) a glaciation
b) an interglacial
c) the Holocene
d) the Eemian interglacial
e) the Medieval Optimum

Question 4:

Which of the following is a short-term external climate change factor?
a) Change in the Earth’s orbit
b) Change in the tilt of the Earth’s axis
c) Sunspots
d) An eclipse
e) A teleconnection

Question 5:

Long-distance linkages between weather patterns that occur in distant locations are called ________.
a) positive feedbacks
b) negative feedbacks
c) greenhouse effects
d) teleconnections
e) Cambrian explosions

Question 6:

The Little Ice Age began ________.
a) prior to AD 1000
b) around AD 1200
c) around AD 1800
d) in the 13th century
e) prior to the Holocene

Question 7:

The Cambrian Explosion refers to ________.
a) The explosion of a volcano called Toba
b) a sudden period of deep freeze
c) a major glaciation
d) interglaciation
e) explosion of marine diversity

Question 8:

Scientist use ________ to date sediment cores taken from the ocean floor.
a) Mineral composition
b) Fossilized sea creatures
c) Isotopes
d) Ash from volcanoes
e) All of the above

Question 9:

The age of ice cores is not determined by ________.
a) Pockets of air trapped in the ice
b) Fossilized sea creatures
c) Heavy isotopes
d) Ash from volcanoes
e) Thickness of the ice core

Question 11:

Used in climatic reconstruction ‘varves’ come from ________.
a) tree rings
b) fossilized pollen
c) farmers trade records
d) ice cores
e) lake sediments

Question 13:

What is not considered to be an external process that affects climate change?
a) volcanism
b) sea surface temperatures
c) uplifting and wearing away of the land surface
d) plate tectonics
e) intensification of greenhouse effect

Question 14:

Snow albedo feedback is considered to be what type of internal process?
a) positive feedback
b) negative feedback
c) teleconnection
d) anthropogenic forces

Question 15:

The IPCC concludes that there will be ________ as much warming over the next two decades than if we had stabilized heat-trapping gases and other climate relevant pollutants in the atmosphere.
a) 1x
b) 2x
c) 3x
d) 4x
e) 5x

Question 16:

The Holocene interglacial was a warming period.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Ocean floor sediments can yield climatic data.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Earth has been experiencing a cooling trend from 1940 to the present.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

The Late Cenozoic Ice Age included approximately 20 advances and retreats of continental ice sheets.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

During the past 1.5 million years, the general trend has been one of extended interglacials separated by brief glaciations.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

The Late Cenozoic Ice Age occurred long before the Pleistocene.
a) True
b) False

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Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition - Unit 18