Climate and Causes
The average weather of a place over many years
What is Climate?
A major type of climate and its living things make up this.
What is Biome
This is the name for a period when temperatures are cooler than normal.
What is Ice Age.
This is the most undiscovered continent on Earth
What is Antarctica
Antarctica is commonly known as the worlds largest one of these
What is desert.
The sun is most direct at this lattitude
What is 0 degrees or the equator.
Tropical, dry, temperate, Continental, and Polar
What are the 5 major Climate types
Since the Pleistocene, Earth's temperature has done this.
What is risen.
There is a hole in this part of the atmosphere that is contributing to the increase temperatures over Antarctica
What is the Ozone Layer
Due to the increase in temperature, Antarctica is growing new types of these
What is Vegatation.
The usual winds at a given latitiude.
What are prevailing (winds).
This climate is found between 60 - 70 degree North Latitude
What is subartic climates.
Sunspots, plate movement, volcanoes, aesteroid and Earth's position relative to the sun are
What is natural changes to major climates.
This amount is the amount of freshwater added to seawater from Pine Island Glacier.
46 gigatons
This marine animal reproductive success is very susceptible to changes in temperature
What are starfish.
Helps to even out the temperature in the oceans.
What are ocean currents.
Mediterranean, Marine wet coast, and Humid subtropical are part of this climate type.
What is temperate climate.
Burning fossil fuels adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere which is a greenhouse gas that is causing this.
What is global warming.
70% of this world freshwater is held in this in Antarctica
What is ice.
The increase in greenhouse gases that is found in the air bubbles in the ice is directly proportional to the this
The Ozone Hole
rain shadow's can be cast by this
What is mountain and or mountain range
This climate may have a different climate than the major climate type around it.
The are the effects of global warming on the planet that the book states.
What is extreme weather, ocean level rising, and or Coral reefs dying.
These marine animals are moving closer to the shore in Antarctica and eating all the Krill that the Penguins normally eat.
What are whales
The Ozone Hole measurement did not grow in this year according to the text.
What is 2009