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$100 Question from Vocabulary

What is Albedo effect?

$100 Answer from Vocabulary

Reflectivy of the planet’s surface

$200 Question from Vocabulary

What is a forcing factor?

$200 Answer from Vocabulary

Feedback mechanisms such as ocean Temperature, currents, freshwaterFlow, outside that climate systemThat can either amplify or reduceThe impact of climate change

$300 Question from vocabulary

What is an ablation?

$300 Answer from vocabulary

The leading edge or “foot” ofA glacier

$400 Question from vocabulary

What is a moraine?.

$400 Answer from vocabulary

Any glacially formed accumulationOf unconsolidated glacial debris (soilAnd rock) which can occur in currentlyGlaciated and formerly glaciated regions

$500 Question from vocabulary

What are paleo proxies?

$500 Answer from vocabulary

Tree rings, and cores from corals,Ice caps, and glaciers that provide dataOn oscillations in global temperatures

$100 Question from Glaciers

A n ice tunnel within a glacier?

$100 Answer from Glacier

Moulin

$200 Question from Glacier

A crack in a glacier is called a…?

$200 Answer from Glacier

Crevasse

$300 Question from Glacier

What are formed when a Glacier reaches the sea and breaksUp into chunks?

$300 Answer from Glacier

Ice bergs---90% in under water

$400 Question from Glaciers

When a glacier reaches the seaWhat process happens?

$400 Answer from Glacier

Calving

$500 Question from Glaciers

If the ice were to melt on Greenland’s glaciers the global Sea level would rise….?

$500 Answer from Glaciers

20 feet

$100 Question from Arctic

What reservoir holds the greatest amountOf freshwater on Earth?

$100 Answer from Arctic

ICE---Ice sheets and Glaciers

$200 Question from Arctic

True or FalseThe NW Passage has been Ice free since 2007 during the summer?

$200 Answer from Arctic

TRUE

$300 Question from Arctic

Why is albedo effect importantTo the Arctic?

$300 Answer from Arctic

Without reflecting the solar Energy, more ice would melt

$400 Question from Arctic

List some physical features Of the Arctic…

$400 Answer from Arctic

The Arctic Ocean is surroundedBy continents, tundra ecosystem

$500 Question from Arctic

What are plants like in the Arctic?

$500 Answer from Arctic

Short, dwarf trees and plants;Dark in color to gather in as much Solar energy as possible;Fast grower

$100 Question from Antarctica

Where is most of the frozenFresh water on the planet located?

$100 Answer from Antarctica

Antarctica

$200 Question from Antarctica

True or False=Ice sheets in Antarctica canBe up to 3 miles thick?

$200 Answer from Antarctica

True

$300 Question from Antarctica

Name a physical featureThat Antarctica has that theArctic does not.

$300 Answer from Antarctica

Southern Ocean surroundsThe continent

$400 Question from Antarctica

What is the Human impactLike on Antarctica?

$400 Answer from Carbon Cycle

Only seasonal residents; noKnown humanoid group Historically lived there

$500 Question from Antarctica

What are the plants like in Antarctica?

$500 Answer from Antarctica

None to speak up, just algaeUnder the ice

$100 Question from Misc

What shaped valley typeIs created by glaciers?

$100 Answer from Misc

U-shaped

$200 Question from Misc

What is an erratic?

$200 Answer from Misc

A large rock that is carried on topOf a glacier and is deposited whenThe glacier recedes.

$300 Question from Misc

About what portion of the Earth’sLand area is covered by glaciers?

$300 Answer from Misc

5%

$400 Question from Misc

Of the 3% fresh water, howmuch fresh waterIs locked up in ice?

$400 Answer from Misc

77%

$500 Question from Misc

What is permafrost?

$500 Answer from Misc

Soil at or below the freezingPoint of water for two or More years—permanently frozensoil

Final Jeopardy

What is the human impact in the Arctic and Antarctica?

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Arctic---drilling for oil; whale huntingAntarctica—minimal only 2,000 allowed on continent to conduct research