Causes
Currents
Regions
Change
General
100
Long-term average conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds and clouds in an area.
What is climate?
100
affect water to a depth of several hundred meters, are driven mainly by winds
What are surface currents?
100
Scientist clasify climates according to two major factors
What are temperature and precipitation?
100
During this period of time, huge sheets of ice called glaciers cover large parts of Earth's surface
What is an ice age?
100
Tropical zone, Polar zones, Temperate zones
What are zones caused by Latitude?
200
A small area with climate condtions that differ from those around it may have.
What is microclimate?
200
Causes winds to curve
What is the Coriolis effect?
200
Rain forests are found in this climate
What is the Tropical-wet?
200
Gradual increase in the temperature of Earth's atmosphere
What is global warming?
200
Influences marine climates
What are ocean currents?
300
Latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, and ocean currents
What are factors that affect temperature?
300
Influences the climate of the land near the coast
What is surface currents?
300
Arid and semiarid climates
What is Dry?
300
Hypothosized to cause greenhouse gases to the atmosphere
What is human activities?
300
Sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons
What are monsoons?
400
prevailing winds, the presence of mountains, and seasonal winds
What are factors that affect precipitation?
400
warm-water event with unusual patterns of winds forming over the western Pacific ocean
What is El Nino?
400
Marine west coast, Mediterranean, and humid subtropical
What is Temperate Marine Climates?
400
Chemicals produced by humans have been damaging
What is the Ozone layer?
400
The side of a mountain where rain and snow fall
What is windward?
500
Caused by the tilt of Earth's axis as Earth travels around the sun
What are the seasons?
500
The total amount of dissolve salts in a water sample?
What is Salinity?
500
Only found on continents in the Northern Hemisphere and include humid continental and subartic
What is Temperate Continental Climate?
500
A group of compounds that are a major cause of ozone depletion
What is Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFC's?
500
The dry land side of a mountain
What is leeward?
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