Weather + Climate
This is the time period in which weather is measured.
What is any given time or place?
This system of currents affects global temperatures by distributing heat and moisture around the earth.
What are wind currents?
This is the number of basic climate groups.
What is three?
This biome receives the least amount of rainfall.
What is a desert?
The weight f this animals is being exerted on us at all times by air pressure.
What is a rhino?
This is the time period in which climate is measured.
What is about 30 years?
This affects climate due to the influence it has on the temperature of the land that surrounds it.
What are bodies of water?
Under the abbreviation Af, this climate zone receives an average of 2.4 inches of rain every month.
What is a tropical rainforest?
This is the number of major land biomes
What is six?
This event creates higher temperatures, flooding, hurricanes, and droughts around the world.
What is El Nino?
As this climate affecting factor increases, the intensity of solar energy decreases.
What is latitude?
This kind of current exists at great depths in the ocean and moves cold, dense water from polar regions to the equator.
What is a deep water current?
These are the two main factors that determine climate zones.
What is temperature and precipitation?
These are the two types of rainforests.
What is tropical and temperate?
This is the name of the chart that helps to display temperature and precipitation of a particular area.
What is a climograph?
As this climate affecting factor increases, the temperature of the climate decreases.
What is altitude?
This event creates colder than usual temperatures in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
What is La Nina?
These are the five main letter classification groups for climate systems.
What is A, B, C, D, and E?
This biome can also be identified as a frozen desert.
What is a tundra?
This climate affecting event occurs when rain falls due to the presence of mountains, leaving one side of the range dry and warm.
What is the Rain Shadow affect?
This feature affects climate with physical features such as mountains.
What is topography?
These are the two types of local winds.
What are land breezes and sea breezes?
This hemisphere is home to the world's Boreal/Taiga climates.
what is the Northern Hemisphere?
This biome is home to tall grasses as well as small trees.
What is a Savanna?
This is the name of the climate classification system most widely accepted by geographers.
What is the Koppen Geiger system?