Extra Credit Assignment 2 - Glaciers

Please watch the video "Chasing Ice". Links to an external site.This video focuses on the melting of glaciers around the world and climate change. This is an extra credit assignment and is worth 10 points.

Please answer the following questions and submit your answer on Canvas.

1. In what subject did photographer James Balog earn his Masters degree?

2. When James Balog began his investigation of glaciers, the Sondheim Glacier was receding at how many feet per year?

3. EIS stands for?

4. When glaciers break off icebergs into oceans its called:

5. According to the video, today (or when the film was made) CO2 levels are at what parts per million?

6. Fire season in the American southwest has increased by how many months compared to the 1980's

7. What are moulins (pronounced mu-lans)?

8. The Iiulisset Glacier in Greenland is rumored to have calved the iceberg that sunk the Titanic. How many feet does this glacier flow per day?

9. The filming crew caught the largest calving even on record. Roughly how tall was the calving face?

10. During this event, an area the size of what city broke off?