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The Climate Puzzle

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1. What are the three ways in which animals have adapted to Earth's changing climate?

2. How have climatologists explained the collapse of the Harrapan culture of India? What evidence have they used?

3. How do caves features help geoscientists uncover changes in Earth's climate?

4. What evidence did geologist Louis Agassiz use to support his theory of glaciation?

5. What three variations in Earth-Sun relations did Milankovitch propose to explain glacial and interglacial periods?

6. How do ocean sediments record the evidence for glacial and interglacial periods?

 7. How is the Antarctic ice sheet providing evidence of climate change?

8. How have human activities contributed to the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere?

9. What impact do insects have on climate? Give an example.

10. Why is global warming so disturbing compared to other climate change impacts like air pollution and acid rain?