Climate Zones
The long term weather pattern of a specific area.
What is climate?
Fog
What is formed when air above the ground is cooled rapidly at night?
A cold front is the leading edge.
What is cold air?
what clouds are made of
What is water and air?
When the earth was covered mostly in ice
What is an ice age?
Areas near an ocean or other large body of water.
What is marine climate?
Current
What is a stream of ocean water that flows in a definite path?
Tornadoes, flooding, and hurricanes.
What are examples of severe weather?
three main types of clouds
What are cumulus, stratus, and cirrus?
Seasons
What is caused by the tilt of the earth's axis?
Temperate zone latitude
What is between 60 degrees and 30 degrees?
Prevailing wind
What is a wind that blows more often from one direction than from any other?
Fair weather
What is the type of weather found with a high pressure system?
Lowest clouds that are smooth, gray, and bring light rain or drizzle.
What are stratus clouds?
As it increases, air becomes cooler and less dense
What is elevation?
Average yearly temperature remains below freezing.
What is the polar zone?
El Nino
What is the warm-water Pacific current that flows down the west coast every 2-7 years?
When two air masses or fronts with different temperatures meet.
What is stormy weather?
Nimbostratus
What are clouds that bring rain and snow?
May have caused dinosaur extinction
What are drifting continents or continental drifts?
Interglacials
What is the time period between major glaciations?
Ice ages
What is another word for major glaciations?
Weather balloon
What does a meteorologist send into the atmosphere to measure current weather?
high level clouds made of ice
What is cirrus?
Three natural factors responsible for climate change
What are drifting of continents, change in sun's energy output, and variations in the position of the Earth relative to the sun?