Which Statement About Climate Is False

question 66

Multiple Choice

Which statement about climate is false?

• A) Climate is the long-term description of weather, and encompasses not just average conditions but also the full scope of variation.
• B) Climatic variation can occur only on very long time scales.
• C) Changes in climate can have profound effects on ecological patterns and processes.
• D) Climatic change refers to directional change in climate over a period of several decades.

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Definitions:

Past Month

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Cocktail Party Effect

The ability of the brain to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as when a person can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room.

Inattentional Blindness

A psychological lack of attention that is not associated with any vision defects or deficits, where individuals fail to perceive an unexpected stimulus in plain sight.

Change Blindness

The phenomenon where observers fail to notice significant changes in their visual environment.