Explain the El Nino effect. What does Canada feel?
The weakening of trade winds every 2-7 years causing the warming of surface water on the west coast of S. America. Canada experiences milder winters.
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Define the following and give an example for each of the following terms:
a) Incandescence
b) Phosphorescence
a) production of light due to high temperatures (ex: lava)
b) object absorbs and emits light slowly (ex: glow-in-the-dark)
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What type climate information do ice cores provide?
Amount of precipitation, presence of volcano eruption, types of isotopes in the atmosphere, types of plant/animal species
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Draw the ray diagram for the following question and describe the image using SALT.
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Draw the formation of the prevailing winds on Earth.
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Using the figure as a template, draw a diagram to show the critical angle and total internal reflection.
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What vision problem does the following eyeball have and what type of lens could correct it?
Myopia, corrected with a diverging lens (negative meniscus).
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Draw the following diagram and describe the image using SALT.
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Calculate the following and describe the image formed using SALT. Leave your final answers in mm.
A 1m tall shrub is located 10m from a camera lens (converging lens). The lens as a focal length of 25mm.
S - smaller; A - inverted; L - 25mm from lens; T - real
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Provide three pieces of evidence supporting climate change.
1) Changes in ecosystems 2) Severe weather patterns 3) Rising sea levels
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Provide an example of a positive feedback loop and a negative feedback loop.
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List and explain the three factors that are involved in the Milankovitch Cycles.
Eccentricity â Shape of the orbit; Obliquity - tilt of the Earth; Precession - wobble
