Aerosols Are Known to Have a _______ Effect on Global

question 71

Multiple Choice

Aerosols are known to have a _______ effect on global temperatures. Some types of aerosols have increased in concentration recently, while others have decreased. One type of aerosol that has increased in concentration is the one associated with _______.

• A) warming; dust due to desertification
• B) warming; increasing volcanic eruptions
• C) cooling; dust due to desertification
• D) cooling; anthropogenic nitrous oxide emissions

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Definitions:

Meta-Cognition

The awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes, or thinking about thinking.

Magical Thinking

A belief in the interconnectedness of unrelated phenomena, where an individual attributes cause and effect relationships to actions and events without scientific justification.

Debiasing

Reducing errors and biases by getting people to use deliberate processing rather than automatic processing.

Automatic Processing

The mental ability to perform tasks without conscious thought, often due to learning and habituation.