EPS 80 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Greenhouse And Icehouse Earth, Milankovitch Cycles, Climatology
15 Nov 2016
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Climate change review questions part 1: define icehouse earth, hothouse earth, milankovitch cycle, climate, weather. Icehouse earth: abundant ice sheets and glaciers that occur at high elevations: alpine/valley glaciers, high latitudes: ice sheets, ice caps. Milankovitch cycle: variations in earth"s orbit and rotation. Eccentricity: change in shape of earth"s orbit, important because circular orbit the sun is at more equal distance from sun throughout entire year bc not equal distance from earth throughout entire year, so more variation through years/cycle. Precession: axis of rotation/axis spins; wobble of axis, spins twice as fast as tilt process. Climate: the weather of a region through time, climate change variation is natural as this is a dynamic planet. Weather: the state of the atmosphere at a given point of time, takes into consideration of: temperature, precipitation, winds, barometric pressure: what methods do scientists use to study current and past climate changes on the.
