Climate Zones
This system compares climate types around the world.
What is the Koppen System?
The Greenhouse Gasses.
What are Methane, CO2, and Water Vapor?
The current era we are in.
What is the Cenozoic Era?
The last land mass where all the continents were together.
What is Pangea?
This is created by Earth's rotation.
What is Coriolis?
This shows the temperature and precipitation of a given area.
What is a climograph?
The start of recorded temperature.
What occurred in the 1860s?
The era before life exploded over the planet.
What is the Precambrian Era?
Mountain building process
What is orogenesis?
The mountains and valleys affecting a region.
What is Topography?
The climate type we have here.
What is a Csa\Csb Climate?
What is a Mediterranean climate?
Using tree rings to look at past climates.
What is dendrochronology?
The era when dinosaurs ruled supreme.
What is the Mesozoic Era?
This helped create the atmosphere when the Earth was younger.
What is volcanic activity?
This causes regions to get colder as it goes higher up.
What is Altitude?
The climate zone C in the identification system.
What is Mild Mid Latitude?
The study of small things such as pollen.
What is Palynology?
The beginning of the Cenozoic era.
What began roughly 65 mya?
A variation of circular to a more elliptical orbit.
What is the Eccentricity of the Orbit?
Specific heat and relation to bodies of water.
What is the Distribution of Land and Water?
A, B, C, D, E, and H
What are the Six zones of the Climate system?
The window of accuracy for Carbon 14 dating.
What is 50,000 years?
The cause of the start of the Cenozoic Era.
What is climate change caused by an asteroid hitting the earth?
A wobble of the angle of tilt.
What is the Obliquity of the Ecliptic?
What is Polar Wandering?
This leads to cells of convection around the Earth.
What is the General Circulation of Atmosphere and Oceans?