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The average weather of an area over a long period of time.
What is weather?
Changes in long-term weather patterns caused by natural events and human activity.
What is climate change?
An area drained by a river. Ex. The Amazon River
What is a basin?
What are drylands?
Mathematical representation of Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and physical processes, often displayed on a map.
What is a climate model?
Any naturally occurring change on or in Earth such as an earthquake.
What is physical process?
Drought, desertification, and erosion.
An example of a changing environment.
The gradual process of turning drylands into deserts.
What is desertification?
The area around the Pacific plate where there area multiple volcanoes and natural disasters.
Wearing away of Earth's surface by wind, water, or glacial action.
What is erosion?
Name 3 physical processes.
Landslides, volcanoes, and droughts.
What is the positive impact of dust storms?
Winds can move the nutrient filled dust to soils far away.
The movement of tectonic plates.
What causes earthquakes?
Why do people prefer to live near disaster-prone areas? Name 6.
Tourism, hard to move away, job opportunities, cost of living, resources, and economy.
Creation of new land in coastal areas.
What is land reclamation?
What are the effects of ice storms? Name at least 2.
Pipes may freeze and burst, trees may fall and cut power.
What causes droughts?
Climate change can increase Earth's temperature where flooding is scarce, and a reduction in water supply.
What is the Great Green Wall Project?
The Taklamakan and Gobi desert's expanding and China is planting greenery to prevent this.
What human and natural activities cause landslides? Name 6.
Deforestation, flooding, heavy rains, melting snow, earthquakes, construction.
What are 2 effects of coastal erosion?
Settlements built near beach are at risk and many lost of life.
How does drought affect the Amazon river basin? List 4 of them
How does drought affect the community? Name 3.
Crops that need lots of water will suffer, drop in river levels, and famine.
What are the benefits of volcanoes? Name 5
Allows for minerals, geothermal energy, tourism, metals, and ash allows for farming.
How do communities protect themselves from extreme weather? Identify 5.
Make changes to homes, communication plan, stronger building materials, early warning systems, and evacuation plans.
What happens when ocean water becomes warmer?
Expands and increase in volume. Causes flooding, and needing land reclamation.