Factors that Affect Climate
These are the 2 most important elements of a climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?
The months of the year are shown on this axis.
What is the x axis.
This classification system is the most widely used system for identifying climates around the world.
What is the Koppen climate classification system?
What is become cooler?
Some scientists say that this natural warming of both Earth's lower atmosphere and Earth's surface is being intensified by human activities.
What is the greenhouse effect?
As latitude increases, solar intensity decreases. It is this zone where the solar intensity is the greatest.
What are the tropics (near the equator)?
These represent the amount of average monthly precipitation.
This principal group contains the subgroups Steppe and Desert.
What is Dry?
The warm counter currents off the coast of South America that cause short-term climate fluctuations every 3-7 years is known as this.
What is El Nino?
Since about 1850, this greenhouse gas has risen dramatically due to the burning of fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide?
Topography and mountains play a part in the climate of a region. On the leeward side of a mountain, most often this type of desert is created.
What is a rain shadow?
A climagraph depicts these two factors of climate using a line graph and a bar graph.
What are precipitation and temperature?
The southeastern United States has this ________ subtropical climate.
What is humid subtropical?
Changes in the shape of Earth's orbit from more circular to more elliptical can cause shifts in the climate on Earth. This orbital cycling takes about this many years.
What is 100,000 years?
The melting of ice at the poles will cause this to happen, affecting coastal cities and eroding shorelines.
What is sea level rise?
Large forests and vegetation can affect the amount of precipitation that a region experiences because of this process.
What is transpiration?
Examine the climagraph for Seattle, WA. This is the approximate average precipitation during the driest month.
What is 1 inch?
These are the characteristics of a wet tropical climate.
What are high temperatures and high precipitation?
These dark blemishes on the surface of the sun correspond with warmer periods in Europe and North America.
What are sunspots?
Higher temperatures, increased frequency of thunderstorms, and lower wind speeds are all the effects a big city has because of this phenomenon.
What is a heat island?
Global winds influence climate by distributing heat and moisture around Earth. These winds constantly move warm air towards here.
What are the poles?
What is the average temperature of Seattle, WA during its wettest month?
What is 40 degrees Fahrenheit?
This principle group, without any subgroups, contains localized climates at higher elevations that are very different than surrounding areas.
What is the Highland group?
The tilt of Earth's axis changes about 2 degrees over a 41,000 year period and has this effect on climate.
What is it changes the severity of the seasons?
Ocean acidification is due to the oceans absorbing more anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere. As the pH does this, carbonate becomes less available making it more difficult for organisms to form their shells.
What is decreases (or becomes more acidic)?