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• What are the factors that control air
temperature?
• What are the factors that control
precipitation?
• What drives the annual temperature regime.
• What effect does a marine location have on
temperature?
• What are examples of a Mediterranean climate,
Dry Midlatitude climate, Moist Continental
climate?
• What are examples of Boreal Forest, Tundra,
and Ice Sheet climates?
• How does rock weathering effect CO2 levels?
• Is something like the Tibetan Plateau normal
in Earth history?
• How much different was the climate at the
latitude of Orlando 50 Myrs ago than now?
• How much different was the climate at the
latitude of New York 50 Myrs ago than now?
• What was the arctic climate like 50 Myrs ago?
• Is the current sea level normal for Earth?
• Prevailing westerly winds off the ocean create
what kind of climate?
• Do climate zones shift with continental drift?
• Is the Earth’s magnetic field constant over
geological time?
• Why was the Cretaceous so much warmer?
• Why has the climate grown colder since the
Cretaceous?
• What is an example of a trade-wind coastal
climate? A moist subtropical climate? A
marine west coast climate?
• What are examples of critters found in Dry
Midlatitude or Tundra climates?
• What causes changes in the volume of ocean
ridges and, thus, ocean basin volume?
• What effect does continental collision have on
ocean basin volume?
• What is the effect of ice sheets on sea levels?
• What is the effect of thermal contraction or
expansion of seawater on sea level?
• How would the expansion of oceans effect
climate?
• What accounts for Europe’s mild climate?
• Where are we in the current Milankovitch cycle?
• What affect does mountain uplift have on the
monsoon cycle?
• About how much carbon is typically in the
atmosphere?
• What is an accumulation zone? Ablation zone?
• What happens to the crust when it is loaded
with ice?
• What do we know about the Earth’s axial tilt?
• Is today’s rate of physical weathering unusually
high?
• What is a perihelion? Aphelion?
• How much less solar radiation does the Earth
get at Aphelion?
• What is the tilt cycle and how long is it?
• How long is the precession cycle?
• What is insolation?
• What is the eccentricity cycle and how long is
it?
• What are the three major greenhouse gases in
the Earth’s atmosphere?
• What are summer and winter monsoons?
• What is the ITCZ?
• How do African monsoons respond to
insolation?
• What are three pieces of evidence for stronger
monsoons in North Africa?
• What is the Milankovitch theory?
• What is a glacial equilibrium line?
• How does mountain building effect CO2?
• How does latitude effect the equilibrium line?
• What happens with cold summers and warm
winters?
• What is the climate point?
• How does elevation shift the climate point?
• How does insolation changes effect the climate
point?
• Describe the lags between ice sheets and
summer insolation?
• What is the response to ice loading on the
crust?
• What is calving?
• What happened to the glacial cycles 2.75 Myr
ago?
• What happened to the glacial cycles 0.9 Myr
ago?
• How do you know that gas trapped in ice cores
samples ancient atmosphere?
• How much does the atmosphere cool with
altitude.
• What is glacial rebound?
• How does glacial rebound explain the sinking of
Holland?