Geography

Explain how the American climatologist, C. Warren Thornthwaite, devised a classification system to ...

Started by MirandaLo

Despite the high plant productivity in tropical rainforests, the soil is not ideal for agriculture. ...

Started by @Brianna17

Explain how Kppen divided dry climates into categories, and characterize each of the primary dry ...

Started by torybrooks

Explain the climatic controls that make the southern and northern desert regions of North America ...

Started by berenicecastro

Discuss annual precipitation amounts and distribution in humid subtropical climates. What will be ...

Started by cartlidgeashley

What are the Dfa and the Dfb climates? Compare the Dfa climate of Des Moines, Iowa, with the Dfb ...

Started by colton

18,000 years ago, huge ice sheets called ____ covered vast areas of North America and Europe. a. ...

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Most of the ice on Earth is in the ____ ice sheets. a. Greenland and Antarctic b. Greenland and ...

Started by drink

Even a rise in global temperature of several degrees Celsius might be enough to raise sea level by ...

Started by 09madisonrousseau09

Glaciers form over land where temperatures are sufficiently low so that, during the course of a ...

Started by james9437

Dendrochronology is the study of ____. a. oxygen-isotope ratios of corals b. annual growth rings ...

Started by javeds

The Ice Age, which began about 2.5 million years ago, is also known as the ____. a. Pleistocene ...

Started by xclash

What allowed human and animal migration to occur from Asia to North America? a. a warm spell ...

Started by BrownTown3

Ice core data from Greenland reveal that rapid shifts in climate (from ice age conditions to a much ...

Started by dejastew

During the Little Ice Age, ____. a. the climatic optimum occurred b. the Bering land bridge ...

Started by Ebrown

Over the Northern Hemisphere, the period from 1983 to 2012 was likely the warmest 30-year period of ...

Started by Jipu 123

Global temperatures probably have not varied by more than ____ during the past 10,000 years. a. ...

Started by littleanan

The water vapor-greenhouse feedback represents a ____ feedback mechanism. a. neutral b. positive ...

Started by future617RT

If Earth were in a warming trend, which of the processes below would most likely act as a negative ...

Started by TVarnum

The greater the ____ of Earths orbit, the greater the variation in solar energy it receives between ...

Started by Alygatorr01285

When all of the Milankovitch cycles are taken into account, the present trend should be toward ____ ...

Started by kwoodring

Volcanoes that have the most impact on global climate seem to be those rich in ____. a. nitrogen ...

Started by HCHenry

An infamous cold spell often linked to volcanic activity occurred during the year ____, which has ...

Started by NguyenJ

If the number of sulfate aerosols inside a cloud should increase, the cloud would have to share its ...

Started by ssal

Presently, the annual average of CO2 is about 400 ppm, and the concentration is increasing by about ...

Started by darbym82