APES Miller Chapter 19 Flashcards

9224953486	global cooling	cooling of Earth's surface and atmosphere leading to glacification	0
9224953487	global warming	increase in the average temperatures on Earth	1
9224953488	glacial periods	Cool periods- more ice volume. Can consist of: less water in the oceans: global sea level fall.	2
9224953489	interglacial periods	Warmer periods when the ice retreats to cover less of the earths surface	3
9224953490	greenhouse effect	process in which certain gases trap sunlight energy in Earth's atmosphere as heat	4
9224953491	tipping point	the time at which a change or an effect cannot be stopped	5
9224953492	amplify	give positive feedback to	6
9224953493	dampen	give negative feedback to	7
9224953494	local weather	the weather that affects a certain place	8
9224953495	drought	a long period without rain	9
9224953497	biodiversity	the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.	10
9224953498	climat stabilization wedges	"wedges" or strategies to decrease CO2 emissions	11
9224953499	clean coal technologies	technologies, equipment, and approaches to remove chemical contaminants	12
9224953500	geoengineering	trying to manipulate certain natural conditions to help counter an enhanced greenhouse effect	13
9224953501	energy taxes	Fee on each unit of fossil fuel burned	14
9224953502	cap-and-trade approach	- emissions trading - incentive-based model, sell services instead of things	15
9224953503	carbon neutral	an activity that does not change atmospheric CO2 concentrations	16
9224953504	ozone thinning	The removal of ozone from the stratosphere by human produced chemicals or natural processes	17
9224953505	halons	any number of unreactive gaseous compounds of carbon with halogens- damages the ozone layer	18
9224953506	prevention	taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse	19