Vocabulary 1
Climate
What kind of climate is very cold and dry?
Polar
Areas that are farthest from Earth's Equator a ________ climate. This is because they receive ________ direct sunlight during the year than areas near Earth's equator
Warm or Cold?
More or Less?
Cold and Less
Why might places that are at the same latitude have different climates?
They might have different elevations.
What is the imaginary line around the middle of the planet where the sun hits the most?
Equator
What kind of climate is normally warm and humid?
Tropical
What is a natural cause of climate change?
a) a 30-day drought
b) a volcanic eruption
c) a sudden snow-storm
d) a wildfire
B) Volcanic Eruption
What are two factors that can help you determine an area's climate?
temperature and precipitation
What is a measure of how far south or north of the equator a place is?
Latitude
What kind of climate is hot in the summer and cold in the winter time?
Temperate
Describe the subtropical zone
Humid and warm year-round
Which city is closer to the equator, Montreal Canada 40 degrees latitude or Indianapolis, Indiana at 30 degrees latitude?
Indianapolis, Indiana
What is the measure of how high above ground something is?
Elevation
What name is given to the types of gases that help trap some of the energy in the atmosphere?
Greenhouse Gases
Why can only small plants grow in the Arctic?
The ground is often frozen and temperatures are too cold to survive
What is the main difference between the weather at a place and its climate?
Weather describes conditions at one time, but climate is a pattern over a long period of time.
What describes how the atmosphere traps energy from sunlight and keeps Earth warm?
The Greenhouse Effect
What is a change in temperature, precipitation, or other weather patterns over a long period?
Too much carbon dioxide can cause the Earth’s climate to become warmer. What would happen if there were no greenhouse gases at all?
The Earth would become cooler.
Before agriculture, a large part of the country of Argentina is called the Pampas. The Pampas has many types of grasses and small shrubs. It has a few trees. What is the climate of the Pampas?
It is temperate continental.