Climate Zones
What is Tropical?
____energy are those that do not produce greenhouse gases. Solar and wind power are examples.
What is Clean energy?
Scientist use these to look at layers on the ice that can tell about past climates.
What are ice cores?
This polar climate is covered with ice and snow.
Whare are ice caps?
The average yearly temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, and winds in an area are this.
What is Climate?
This Climate zone always has the sun's rays hit at a lower angle year round.
What is Polar?
The trend of the increase in the temperature of Earth over time.
What is global warming?
Repeating ice ages every 1,000,000 years is due to changes in Earth's orbit and the ______if it's axis.
What is tilt?
Movement of _____ over time has changed climate due to changing ocean currents, location of Earth and creation of mountain ranges.
What are continents?
Cutting down forested areas.
What is deforestation?
This polar climate has a short cool summer and bitterly cold winter.
What is a Tundra?
9% of greenhouse gases are due to this human intervention-rasising livestock,growing feed for them, disposing of their products etc...
What is Agriculture?
Regions receiving less that 25cm pf rain a year.
What are deserts?
The sun's rays are least direct near the_____
What are poles?
What is a monsoon?
This Climate has temperature that fall with altitude, it is colder than the regions around it.
What are Highlands?
Gases in the atmosphere that absorb solar energy and do not allow it to escape to space.
What are greenhouse gases?
Looking at the size of these can tell scientist about the climate and conditions of plants growth that were favorable or not.
What are tree rings?
This is an area is influenced by latitude, altitude, and large bodies of water.
What is temperature?
Solid and liquid particles that are very tiny that can stay suspended in the atmosphere-can reflect incoming solar energy.
What are Aerosols?
This temperature climate has drier summers and winters are cool and rain.
What is Mediterranean?
What is methane?
This climate zone has sun's rays hit more directly during the summer but lower angle in the Winter.
What is Temperate?
Climates are classified according to precipitation and ___________.
What is temperature?
Imaginary lines that run parallel with the equatorup and down to each pole.
What is Latitude?