AP Flashcards

7304783377	COP21	The supreme decision-making body of the Rio Earth Summit	0
7304783378	Kyoto Protocol	This document binds developed countries to have atarget in reducing gas emissions	1
7304783379	Rio Earth Summit	This event resulted to the adoption of the UN framework Convention on climate change	2
7304783380	Methane	End product of industrial and agricultural process and the decomposition of landfill waste	3
7304783381	Charles David Keeling	He said that carbon dioxide became 35% more than it was before the industrial revolution	4
7304783382	Svante August Arthenius	He said that the earth's average temperature would rise due to the additional carbon dioxide caused by the burning of fossil fuels	5
7304783383	Joseph Fourier	He discovered that the earth's atmosphere traps heat like greenhouse gasesy	6
7304783384	Halocarbon	The type of gas with the highest capacity to trap heat	7
7304783385	Carbon Dioxide	The type of gas released by animals through respiration	8
7304783386	Magnitude	The quantitative measure of the size of the earthquake	9
7304783387	Cabanatuan	Aside from Baguio, this city was the hardest hit in the strongest quake in the country that killed 1,200	10
7304783388	RA 9729	The law that created the Climate Change Commission	11
7304783389	Yolanda	Most powerful typhoon	12
7304783390	Pablo	2nd most powerful typhoon	13
7304783391	Ruping	3rd most powerful typhoon	14
7304783392	Ondoy	4th most powerful typhoon	15
7304783393	Frank	5 th most powerful typhoon	16
7304783394	Peping	6th most powerful typhoon	17
7304783395	Auring	The name of the typhoon that first hit the country for the year 2017	18
7304783396	10	The highest possible intensity of an earthquake	19