Climate Change: Milankovitch Cycle

It is the long-term heating of Earth's climate system observed since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning

• climate change

• global warming

• green house gasses

• pollution

An international agreement on the use of ozone-depleting substances signed in September 1987.

• Kyoto Protocol,

• Bonn Agreement

• Montreal Protocol

• Nitrogen Oxide Protocol

Which cycle states that Earth rotates on its axis, it wobbles or vibrates like a spinning top?

• fourth cycle

• third cycle

• second cycle

• first cycle

Which cycle deals with the changes in the shape of the earth’s orbit around the sun?

• first cycle

• second cycle

• third cycle

• fourth cycle

Which cycle takes into account the changes in the Earth’s tilt?

• second cycle

• fourth cycle

• first cycle

• third cycle

The Earth’s tilt as it orbits the Sun is called ____________.

• precession

• axis

• eccentricity

• obliquity

The wobbling is the ______________ of the Earth’s Axis

• axis

• obliquity

• precession

• eccentricity

The changes in the shape of the earth’s orbit is called as _____________.

• eccentricity

• obliquity

• precession

• eccentricity

What sign of global warming is based on the recorded accounts by people who described environmental situations in the past?

• tree ring analysis

• Ice core analysis

• Phenology

• historical accounts

What sign of global warming makes use of the annual growth rings of trees which may be thicker or thinner, depending on the past climate?

• ice core analysis

• tree ring analysis

• ocean sediment analysis

• historical accounts