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Geosphere
Controls on regional rainfall,
What is meant by the term avulsion,
What is a yardang
13
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Biosphere- intro
What is the higher boundary of th...,
What are the main products of res...,
What does the caption exchange ca...
26
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Biosphere- Soils
Soil is a dynamic three phase sys...,
Soil functions,
How much more carbon do soils sto...
18
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Biosphere- Biodiversity
What is biodiversity,
What is genetic drift,
Does genetic drift cause adaptation
19
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Biosphere- Biogeography
Biogeography definition,
Factors affecting the distributio...,
What are biomes
14
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Biosphere- Biogeochemistry
What is silicate weathering,
There is a large imbalance betwee...,
We are now extracting and burning...
9
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Biosphere- Human Impact
How is respiration affected by te...,
What is the main process by which...,
What percentage of the biosphere ...
11
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Biosphere- Measuring and Predicting Contemporary Change
What does an eddy convarance towe...,
What is gross primary productivity,
What is net primary productivity
12
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Geosphere- Terrestrial Sphere
How many phases are there in wm d...,
Base level is equivalent to,
What is peneplanation
10
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Geosphere- Landscape Shaping Processes
What is the principle of mass con...,
What is the equation to work out ...,
Height change due to erosion
16
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Geosphere- Draninage Networks
What factor determines drainage d...,
What 3 factors is velocity depend...,
Discharge definition
10
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Geosphere- Coastal Geomorphology
What is the water depth at the ed...,
What is stratigraphy,
How does sediment move in estuari...
13
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Geosphere- Vegetation And Topography
Why is vegetation important,
Where is most carbon stored,
4 factors that control the distri...
14
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Geosphere- Extreme Events
What is uniformitarianism,
What is gradualism,
What is catastrophism
6
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Geopshere- Landscape Response To Environmental Change
What 2 factors have a large impac...,
Sea level change affects what par...,
Benthic is a proxy for
12
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Cryosphere
An ice sheet is an ice mass with ...,
Has sea ice in the arctic increas...,
Clean glacier ice has an albedo of
20
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Cryosphere- Ice on Earth, Dynamic Ice
What part of the cryosphere is th...,
Are ice sheets on land or over sea,
How large does an ice mass have t...
12
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Cryosphere- Ice And Climate
What is the albedo of fresh snow,
What is the albedo of sea ice,
What is the albedo of land
10
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Cryosphere- Ice/ocean Interactions
What percentage of ice do outlet ...,
West antarctica is grounded ___ s...,
What is the marine ice sheet inst...
4
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Cryosphere- Recent Change
When was the last glacial maximum,
Oxygen levels are a proxy for,
What impact do volcanic eruptions...
7
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Cryosphere- Future Projections
What is ela,
Greenland ice sheet what is the s...,
Antarctic ice sheet surface mass ...
3
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A&O- Intro
What is the atmospheres biggest r...,
What is the stephan boltzmann con...,
Does the sun have long or short w...
8
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A&O- Aerosols
What are aerosols,
What 2 ghgs have been rapidly inc...,
What rcp scenarios are we current...
8
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A&O- Global Atmospheric Circulation
Name the 3 cells,
Cells are strongest in which loca...,
What causes cells to rise and sink
7
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A&O- Salinity
Oceans cover what percentage of t...,
Which is denser ocean or air,
What percentage of sea water is salt
10
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A&O- Coriolis
Where is there no coriolis force,
What direction does the earth rot...,
What temperature is high pressure...
5
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