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These three affect temperature.
What are latitude, altitude, and distance?
The two factors scientists use to classify climates.
What are temperature and precipitation?
Three ways to get information about ancient climates.
What are pollen, tree rings, and ice cores?
Most of this is released when burning fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide?
Long term weather pattern in an area.
What is climate?
Climate only found in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is temperate continental?
Huge sheets of ice.
What are continental glaciers?
How the atmosphere keeps Earth's surface warm.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The three zones based on latitude.
What are tropical, polar, and temperate zones?
Tropical rainy, dry, temperate marine, temperate continental, polar, and highlands.
What are the six main climate regions?
Time of glacial advance.
What is an ice age?
These can change the land, water, and air on Earth's surface faster than most geologic processes.
What are humans?
Two types of climate based on distance from large bodies of water.
What are marine and continental climates?
An area with two types of rainy climates.
What are the tropics?
Movement of continents, variations in Earth's position relative to the sun, major volcanic eruptions, and changes in sun's energy output.
What are explanations to major climate change?
What are the effects of global warming?
These are the main factors that affect precipitation.
What are prevailing winds, presence of mountains, and seasonal winds?
The coldest climate region's climates.
What are tundra and ice cap?
If plants or animals today need certain conditions to live, then similar plants and animals in the past also required those conditions.
What is the principle scientists follow for ancient climates?
Finding and using clean, renewable sources of energy, being energy efficient, and removing carbon from fossil fuel emissions.
What are solutions to climate change?