Climate
Greenhouse gases are keep the earth warmer or cooler?
What is warmer?
The cause of seasons
What is the earth's tilt?
La Nina and El Nino are changes of sea temperature in this ocean.
What is the Pacific?
The area that receives less rain because of the proximity to mountians
What is the rain shadow?
The reduction of energy used during winter months
What is hibernation?
The area on earth that receives the most solar radiation
What are the tropics?
A condition that may warm the earth
More greenhouse gases, changes in solar cycles
As air moves up a mountain that is facing the wind, air rises, , and drops its moisture as precipitation
What is cools?
The reduction of energy used during hot dry times
What is estivation?
This is where and when you would find 24 hours of sunlight
What are the polar areas in the summertime?
A condition that may cool the earth
What are volcanic eruptions or meteor strikes, change in solar cycle?
On the side of the mountain away from the wind, air descends, , and dries out the land.
What is warms?
This is the difference between climate and weather
Climate is the weather in a region averaged
Weather is what is happening right now
These are the months of the winter and summer solstice
What are December and June?
What is La Nina?
These are the three things that climate classifications are based on.
What are temperature, precipitation, and vegetation?
The three major influences on climate
What are latitude, large bodies of water, ocean currents?
This happens at the equinoxes
What is 12 hours of daylight and 12 night everywhere on earth?
When the waters off Peru are warm then we are in this cycle?
What is El Nino?
Koppen
Who developed the climate classification system in 1918