Climate
What is climate?
Average weather conditons of a place over a long period of time
What is weather
the conditions of the atmosphere that are present in a particular place at a particular time
What is the greenhouse effect?
a naturally occuring process that helps keep the earth warm
When heat from the sun is trapped by the earths atmosphere
What is an ecosystem? what are the two types of ecosystems?
A community of living things that interact with each other and their enviroment
Terrestrial and aquatic
How many different climate zones are there?
8
Examples of weather
What is global warming
When human acitivity increases the greenhouse effects and makes the earth get hotter
Define biotic factors and abiotic factors
Abiotic factors means non living things (water, air, sunlight, temperature)
both are included in a ecosystem
What are the two parts of climate?
What causes weather
Heat from the Sun and the movement of air and water
What are the effects of global warming
- places are getting hotter
- weather is becoming more unpredictable
- can cause extreme weather events to happen more frequently (floods, droughts, hurricanes)
- bodies of water reduce or disappear
- sea level rise
What is a population?
A group of plants or animals of the same species
What does "animals and plants adapt to the place they live" mean?
Animals and Plants adapt to the specific temperatures and amount of water available in a place
What are the four stages of the water cycle
Condensation, precipitation, evaportation, Collection
How does global warming make the sea levels rise?
This adds more water into the seas and oceans and makes their levels rise
What is a community?
Many different populations living together in an ecosystem
Name as many climate zones as you can.
Mountain, Polar, Oceanic, Mediteranian, continental, equiatorial, tropical, desert
Tropical forests have 2 seasons - a short dry season and a long wet season.
Temperate forests have 4 seasons - summer, spring, autumn, winter
What are example of fossil fuels and what happens when we burn fossil fuels
Examples are coal, oil, and gas.
When we burn fossil fuels, we release more CO2 into the atmopshere.
Tropical rainforests, coral reefs, and the arctic tundra