Unit 9 : Global Change : Review

GWP of around 10,000, Sources: refrigerants, agents in aerosol products. Breaks apart Ozone in the stratosphere

• Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
• Methane
• Carbon Dioxide
• Nitrous Oxide

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

A global agreement to phase CFCs out of production in refrigerators, aerosols and other uses

• Montreal Protocol (1987)
• Kyoto Protocol
• Clean Air Act
• CITES

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere

• The Greenhouse Effect
• Global Warming
• Climate Change
• GWP Effect

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

A measure of how much light is reflected back from a surface

• Albedo
• Reflectivity
• Specific Heat Capacity
• Refractivity

Measure of how much a given molecule of gas can contribute to the warming of the atmosphere over a 100 year period, relative to CO2

• Global Warming Potential (GWP)
• The Greenhouse Effect
• Climate Change
• GWP Effect

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

The predictable, collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years

• Milankovitch Cycles
• Positive Feedback Loop
• Negative Feedback Loop
• Wegner's Theory

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Water molecules move further apart when they're heated

• Thermal Expansion
• Newton's 2nd Law
• Newton's 3rd Law
• Heat Index

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Living organisms that can transmit diseases from human to human or animal to human

• Vector
• Pathogen
• Microbe
• Parasite

The heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance one degree

• Specific Heat Capacity
• Albedo
• Reflectivity
• Absorptive Index

A layer within a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth

• Thermocline
• Ocean Conveyor Belt
• Abyss
• Photic Zone