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Review

Question 1: Why is climate considered the state of a system?

Question 2: What is climate variability?

Question 3: What is the purpose of peer review?

Question 4: How does climatology follow the scientific method?

Question 5: What is the general consensus in the scientific community with regards to the current climate change trend?

Question 6: How long is a sunspot cycle?

Question 7: What is a Milankovitch cycle?

Question 8: How do volcanoes influence climate change?

Question 9: What is essential in constructing a global climate model?

Question 10: Why is vulnerability to climate change region specific?

Critical Thinking

Question 1: Explain why climate can't truly be defined as simply "average weather."

Question 2: Describe the Maunder minimum and its possible connection to the climate of the Little Ice Age.

Question 3: In general, how do the Milankovitch cycles affect incoming solar radiation?

Question 4: How do violent volcanic eruptions rich in sulfur dioxide (SO2) affect the stratospheric ozone shield?

Question 5: Identify the various ways whereby plate tectonics may cause large-scale climate change.

Question 6: Explain how the ice-albedo feedback affects the extent of Arctic sea-ice cover.

Question 7: Why does an extensive winter snow cover tend to be self-sustaining?

Question 8: Why is mathematics used so extensively in modeling experiments?

Question 9: What are some major differences between the WAIS and EAIS and their rate of melt in a warming climate?

Question 10: How has the Arctic environment already been affected by a changing climate?