Climate pt.1
Condition at a particular time and place
What is Weather?
Land heats up and cools down faster than ____, so ____ helps moderate the temp. of nearby lands.
What is water?
The single land mass that the continents once fit together was called ____.
What is Pangaea?
The four major greenhouse gasses.
What are CO2, water vapor, methane, and nitrous oxide?
Three ways individuals can reduce greenhouse emissions.
What are driving less, turning off lights, and recycling?
Temp. and precip. over a long period of time
What is climate?
Hight above sea level
What is Elevation?
The dark areas on the sun in which activity increases and decreases.
What are sun spots?
Two human causes of climate change.
What are fossil fuels and deforestation?
Three ways individuals can remove greenhouse gasses.
What are planting trees, educating citizens, and making programs.
Angular distance in degrees north and south from the equator
What is latitude?
Driven by winds, ___ ___ carries warm water away from the Equator, and cool water away from the poles.
What are surface currents?
Two weather patterns that influence ocean temperatures.
What are El Nino and La Nina?
The gradual increase in global temperature.
Four new types of clean energy.
What are biofuels, wind energy, hydro energy, and solar power?
Surface features of an area, influences the wind patterns and transfer of energy.
What is topography?
Determined by temp., topography, winds, ocean currents, and geography
What are climate zones?
A long period of cooling in which ice sheets spread beyond the polar regions.
What is an ice age?
Four places where instruments have been placed to collect climate data.
Where are the atmosphere, oceans, on land, and in space?
Particles in the atmosphere can block the sun and _____ temperatures on Earth.
What is lower?
Moist air moves up the mt. and cools and condenses into precipitation, moisture drops, and the air is dry on the other side of the mt.
What is the rain shadow effect?
The 3 climate zones
What are temperate, polar, and tropical climate zones?
The process in which gasses reflect energy back to Earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Three major issues that come with climate change.
What are crop failures, storm damage, and disease?
This has contributed to long-term climate change over billions of years.
What is tectonic plate movement?