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Questions
1. What is the difference between weather and climate?
A. Weather and climate are used interchangeably.
B. Weather occurs in the northern hemisphere, while climate occurs in the southern hemisphere. C.Weather occurs over hours and days, and climate occurs over seasons and years.
2. Provided Carbon dioxide is more (more or less)? potent on a per-molecule basis than most other anthropogenic greenhouse gases, and is more (more or less? abundant in the atmosphere.
3. Select all that apply with respect to water vapor: ?contributes most to the natural greenhouse effect
• a greenhouse gas ?varies in concentration around the globe
• its average global concentration has not changed over time
• contributes least to the greenhouse effect
• the most abundant
4. Fill in the following two blanks: The recent increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere results primarily from burning? for energy and secondarily from the loss of carbon-absorbing vegetation due to _?
5. ???? your responses in the spaces provided; The textbook authors suggest that individuals can make efforts to reduce their carbon footprints, citing two compelling statistics - the generation of ? accounts for 35% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, and ? accounts for more than 35%.