1 D199 WGU EXAM/90 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST VERSION 2024 -2025 CPOMPLETE DOCUMENT FOR STUDY in the last 10,000 years: ANSWERS humans began modifying the land surface for growing food with advent of agricultural revolution the agricultural revolution roughly ANSWERS coincides with a warm interglacial period that began about 11,700 years ago which is called the HOLOCENE era (warm stable climate) the last 270 years of the holocene ushered into the ANSWERS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION when climate pollution began to increase dramatically the industrial revolution was powered by ANSWERS fossil fuels what began after world war II? ANSWERS the great acceleration (1950-present) -caused depletion in the ozone layer -After 1950, the biodiversity of species started decreasing and the extinction of species accelerated2 The Great Acceleration marks the beginning of ANSWERS Homo sapiens' truly massive global imprint on the planet -The climate has already warmed by 1C since 1900. -If humans continue with business-as-usual consumption of fossil fuels, the warming between 1900 and 2100 could exceed 4C. the greenhouse effect. ANSWERS It is this trapping of heat energy that otherwise would have escaped to space through the atmosphere -allows solar radiation to enter -the blanket effect is the greenhouse effect real?