Select the event that marks the beginning of the instrumental period of climate history.
A) invention of the mercury thermometer by Daniel Fahrenheit in 1714
B) routine and widespread usage of thermometers starting in 1860
C) first temperature recording by an orbiting weather satellite in 1979
D) use of ocean-going vessels to measure marine air temperatures in 2000
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Q2: The geothermal gradient is due to
A) decaying
Q3: Proxies are used to
A) directly measure temperature
B)
Q4: Select the example of a proxy indicator
Q5: Which proxy indicates a past period of
Q6: Atmospheric greenhouse gases cause the greenhouse effect
Q7: The Milankovitch cycles involve changes in
Q8: Volcanic eruptions
A) release dark soot particles with
Q9: Which is the most significant greenhouse gas
Q10: Most methane emissions arise from
A) animal digestive
Q11: In a computer model that is tested
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