Which of the Following Processes May Be Responsible for Short-Term

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which of the following processes may be responsible for short-term cooling,yet in the long term favors warm,greenhouse climate?

• A) atmospheric carbon dioxide
• B) formation of extensive ice sheets
• C) volcanism
• D) formation of large continents located near the poles

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Definitions:

Regression Analysis

The statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables, often used to predict a dependent variable from one or more independent variables.

Indicator Variables

Variables in statistics used to represent categorical data with values indicating the presence or absence of a characteristic.

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

A statistical method used to compare the means of three or more samples to understand if at least one of the sample means significantly differs from the others.

Type I Error

The faulted rejection of an authentic null hypothesis, also termed as a "false positive."