Climate
Ocean Currents
Climate Regions
Climate Change
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Climate
What is the long-term average conditions of temperature, precipitation, wind, and clouds in an area?
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The unusual warm-water event that forms over the tropical pacific.
What is El Nino?
100
Forests in which large amounts of rain fall year-round.
What is a rain forest?
100
Ice age.
What is the period where huge sheets of ice called glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface?
200
A small area with climate conditions that differ from those around it.
What is a micro climate?
200
An unusual cold-water event that forms over the eastern Pacific.
What is La Nina?
200
Temperature and precipitation.
What do scientists classify climates by?
200
The gradual increase in the temperature of Earth's atmosphere.
What is global warming?
300
The tropical zone is along the equator. The polar zone is near the polar regions. The temperate zone is in between these two zones.
What are and where are the three temperature zones?
300
Streams of water within the oceans that move in regular patterns.
What are ocean currents?
300
Arid and semiarid climates.
What do dry climates include?
300
Antarctica.
Where was the ozone hole discovered?
400
False
True or false, mountains/highlands near the equator are automatically warm.
400
The differences in the density of ocean water.
What are deep currents caused by?
400
Tropical rainy, dry, temperate marine, temperate continental, polar, and highlands
What are the six main types climate regions?
400
Chlorofluorocarbons.
What does CFC stand for?
500
Latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies, and ocean currents.
What are the main factors that influence temperature.
500
Deep currents. They move and mix water around the world and carry cold water from the poles toward the equator.
What is the Global Conveyer Belt and what does it do?
500
Temperature falls as altitude increases, so highland regions are colder.
Why are highlands colder than the regions that surround them?
500
An increase in ultraviolet radiation which can cause eye damage and skin cancer.
What is the result of ozone depletion?
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