general climate
The short term conditions of the air in a particular place at a particular date
What is weather?
the bar graph of a climagraph represents this
What is precipitation?
An acronym used to remember the 6 factors of climate
What is LOWERNearwater
describes how far north or south a place is from the equator.
What is latitude?
What is about a thousand years?
Barak's last name.
What is Obama
The average weather of an area over a long period of time
What is climate?
The line graph on a climagraph represents this
What is temperature?
A large volume of air with similar conditions of temperature throughout
What is an air mass
What is the next important line above the equator.
What is the Tropic of Cancer.
What is relief?
The best game in our class
What is singing monsters?
changes in the long term weather patterns caused by natural events and/or human acivity
What is climate change?
Adding up the monthly precipitation in a specific place during a year gives us the
What is total annual precipitation?
A natural condition or situation that affects the climate characteristics of a place
What is a climate factor?
Whatis the dry side of the mountain called?
What is the Leeward Side?
When this increases, temperatures become cooler
What is elevation?
What they speak in Texas
What is Texan?
An increase in average global temperatures near the Earth's surface
What is global warming?
The number of degrees from the highest temperature to the lowest temperature gives the
temperature range
term that refers to the belt around the Earth near the equator where sailing ships sometimes get stuck on windless waters.
What are the doldrums?
The usual or common winds for a particular place
What are prevailing winds?
Rain or snow that occurs as a result of air rising over mountains
What is relief precipitation?
It's what cows drink
What is water?
Areas on Earth described as having similar climate characteristics
What are climate regions?
A person who studies climate
climatologist
winds that blow steadily from the northeast in the northern hemisphere and from the southeast in the southern hemisphere
What are trade winds?
These are massive flows of water within oceans
What are ocean currents?
These take a long time to cool down or heat up compared to the land around them
What are bodies of water?
It is green
What is Shrek?