CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS 1. Of the many different types of greenhouse gases,
ID: 153731 • Letter: C
Question
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS 1. Of the many different types of greenhouse gases, which ones will likely decline faster if we reduce their production? 2. Some sources of air pollution produce tiny black particles that can be transported around the world and to warming global temperatures, melting polar ice caps, and rising sea levels? 3. If Earth was not tilted on its axis, how would it affect the seasonality of rainfall at the equator? 4. What parallels can you draw between the processes that drive Hadley 5. If there was no Coriolis effect, how would it afect atmospheric convection currents and ocean 6. How do ocean gyres affect the pattern of plant hardiness zones in North America? 7. Why do El Niño and La Niña events cause opposite weather climates around the world? 8. Based on your knowledge of the thermohaline circulations, how might melting of the ioe in the Arctic Ocean s covered in snow and ice. Based on the albedo effect, how might this air pollution contribute cells versus rain shadows? affect the climate of Europe? a Wa cesets 10. Compare and contrast podsolization and laterization.Explanation / Answer
1. The concentration of greenhouse gases depends on the competition between the rate of emission and the rate of the process of removal. It's also determined by the lifetime of the gases in the atmosphere, the minimum lifetime is of CH4 and HCFC-22 is about 12 yrs whereas the N2O is of 110 yrs and CO2 is about millennia. So it’s clear the first gas to disappear will be CH4 and HCFC-22 from our atmosphere.
2. Next to the CO2 black particles plays a major role in the global warming it absorbs solar energy and warms the atmosphere. As they are heavier in nature it can’t remain suspended in the atmosphere it returns to the earth with rain or snow, when it falls it darkens the surface of snow and ice leading to reduction in the albedo ( reflecting the power of the surface) effect, resulting in warming the snow and increasing melting effect.
3. The tilt in the earth axis is responsible for the seasonality on the planet, without this tilt earth would have received the constant sunlight throughout the earth and resulting in equator being the warmer place and poles being the colder one. There would not any sessions on this planet.
4. In both, the process the moist air moves upward but the driving forces are different, in the Hadley Cells sun’s ray is the driving force which heats the equatorial moist air to rise upward whereas in the Rainshadow effect mountain mass directs the moisture-laden air to move upward.