FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS G302(L) F07

NOTE: In addition to text, lecture, and handout materials, please refer to all webites/links provided during semester to asist you in developing your answers to the following questions.

Questions from text chapters 6, 9 & 11:

1. What is the relationship between vegitation and albedo? Discuss the effects of this relationship on climate change.

2. Describe the process of desertification. Discuss it from the perspectives of how it effects the water cycle and climate change. Are there climate-geographical regions that are naturally prone to this process, other than natural deserts?

3. Discuss the concept of biogeographical forcing.

4. Discuss the differences between the three major forest biomes (boreal, temperate & rainforest) and their interactions, and impacts upon, climate development and change.

5. Discuss evapotranspiration, specifically its role in climate development and the water cycle.

6. What impacts do aerosols and particulates in the atmosphere have on clouds and climate?

Questions from Articles 18 & 23 & Cadillac Desert book excerpt:

1. Discuss carbon trading and its inherent advantages and disadvantages.

2. Discuss the current management of the Colorado River Watershed, particularly, how the water is, or is not, being allocated to the various users in the U.S. and Mexico. How does this relate to the climate history and trends in the region?

3. What are the long term effects of the depletion of the Ogallala, both on the water cycle and the mid west climate?

4. From Article 18, discuss the blueprint for ending global warming, and discuss its feasibility.

5. Discuss the relationship between warming climate and photosynthesis. How does this relationship influence U.S. forest management policy into the future?

6. Discuss the connection between water rights and the right to pollute the atmosphere as each relates to the larger environmental problems of water pollution and climate change.