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| One Day Q. What is one day using annual scale powers of ten? |
Q. Who introduced you to the Climate Timeline? | What is thermal response and give an example of how it occurs over the course of a normal day? | Where is the sun rising now on the planet? | When does the apparent sunrise and sunset occur in your community today? | How does weather differ from climate? | Why is the diurnal cycle important to plants and what is the process that allows them to store solar energy? | What is the forecasted high and low temperature and chance of precipitation for today in your community? |
| 1 Year Q. How is one year expressed as powers of ten temporal scaling? |
Q. Who uses a Decision Calendar to organize around the annual water year? | Q. What is the fundamental cause of the seasonal changes over a year? | Q. Where do the sun's direct rays hit during the vernal or autumnal equinox? | Q. When does the water year begin? | Q. How do many marine mammals adapt to seasonal changes? | Q. Why is obliquity important for seasonal changes? | Q. How does the weather today compare with a year ago in your community? |
| 10 Year Q. How is ten years expressed as powers of ten temporal scaling? |
Q. Who has suggested that fewer extreme weather or climate events is not always "better" from an impacts standpoint? | Q. What is ENSO? | Q. Where were fishing industries severely impacted during the 1982-83 El Niñys "better" from an impacts standpoint? | Q. When are droughts in the southern U.S. and flooding in the Pacific Northwest more likely? | Q. How do oceanic phenomenon such as ENSO influence global climate? | Q. Why is ENSO important in predicting Atlantic hurricanes? | Q. Is there an ENSO teleconnection with your region? |
| 100 Year Q. How is one hundred years expressed as powers of ten temporal scaling? |
Q. Who coined the term Pacific Decadal Oscillation or PDO? | Q. What occurred between the mid 1940s and early 1970s to global climate? | Q. Where were 300,000-500,000 people killed due to winds coupled with a storm surge in 1970? | Q. When did the Great Smog of London occur? | Q. How many people were there at the beginning and end of the 20th Century? | Q. Why is population regarded as an important factor in climate change? | Q. How has your community changed in the past 100 years in terms of population and climate? |
| 1000 Year Q. What is one thousand years expressed as powers of ten temporal scaling? |
Q. Who were the people living in the American South West 1000 years ago who may have been impacted by drought? | Q. What forces account for 40-65% of decadal-scale temperature variations during the past 1000 years before 1850? | Q. Where does the Thermohaline circulation system vent tropical heat? | Q. When did the Medieval Warm Period begin and when did it end? | Q. How are climate changes over 1000 years or more studied? | Q. Why was Iceland surrounded by sea-ice around 1695? | Q. How was the climate and environment in your community different 1000 years ago from now? |
| 10,000 Year Q. What is ten thousand years expressed as powers of ten temporal scaling? |
Q. Who first suggested that a catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea could have been the biblical flood? | Q. What is the most recent epoch called following the end of the last Ice Age? | Q. Where did irrigation and agriculture begin about 10,000 years ago? | Q. When did the Black Sea become flooded? | Q. How many people are estimated to have existed 10,000 years ago? | Q. Why were summer temperatures in the northern hemisphere warmer 5,000 to 7,000 years ago than today? | Q. Why is the domestication of water through irrigation considered by some to be the first technological revolution? |
| 100,000 Year Q. What is 100,000 years expressed as powers of ten temporal scaling? |
Q. Who thrived in cold European climates some 30,000 years ago? | Q. What is the Younger Dryas? | Q. Where did many species of animals become extinct shortly after Homo sapiens arrived 50KYA? | Q. When did the Younger Dryas occur? | Q. How can orbital cycles influence Ice Ages? | Q. Why was sea level some 120 meters lower than today some 18KYA? | Q. What geologic event may have triggered an abrupt climate change 71KYA? |
| Beyond Q. What is 1 million and 1 billion expressed as powers of ten temporal scaling? |
Q. Who developed the Gaia hypothesis which proposes a global climate thermostat? | Q. What major event occurred some 251 million years ago? | Q. Where did human ancestors evolve? | Q. When did Earth's existence begin? | Q. According to the Gaia hypothesis, how has the Earth avoided freezing or experiencing a run-away Greenhouse effect? | Q. Why did the Earth's early atmosphere gain free oxygen (O2) ? | Q. What are the two primary natural phenomenon that we measure time by? |