Questions
21
What is the reason for extreme difference in temperatures at day and night in deserts?
Answer: Lack of moisture leads to escape of heat
22
What does the method of “enhanced weathering” infer?
Answer: None of the mentioned
23
What does the process of carbon sequestration mean?
Answer: Both of the mentioned
24
Which of the following greenhouse gas is contributed by cattle farming?
Answer: Methane
26
Which of the following gases has the highest radiative efficiency?
Answer: PFTBA
28
Which is the main feedback gas of the greenhouse effect?
Answer: Water vapor
29
For greenhouse effect greenhouse gases interacts with which one of the following options?
Answer: Sun’s energy
30
Surface temperatures on the planet ______ are hot enough to melt lead.
Answer: Venus
31
The scientist who first estimated the rise in global temperatures due to burning fossil fuels was:
Answer: Callendar
32
If the temperature of the sun were raised by 2%, how much more solar radiation would reach Earth?
Answer: 8%
33
Climate represents……………..
Answer: The long-term average weather and its statistical variation for a given region
34
Loss of sea ice by melting in the Arctic Ocean:
Answer: May result in positive feedback that amplifies global warming
35
Energy sources that do not increase carbon emissions include –
Answer: Nuclear power plants
36
………………………………is the artificial modification of Earth’s climate systems through two primary ideologies, Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR).
Answer: Geo- engineering
37
What greenhouse gas, whose concentration in the atmosphere is steadily increasing, is produced by cattle and other animals?
Answer: CH4
38
Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are transparent to:
Answer: light but they absorb heat (infrared)
40
The fraction of the rise in global temperature during the last century that was anthropogenic is
Answer: unknown, but not zero
