What Causes Climate
Currents & Climate
Climate Regions
Climate Change
100
The long term average temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds of an area.
What is climate?
100
The force that drives surface currents
What is winds?
100
Forests in which large amounts of rain fall year-round
What are rain forests?
100
Cold periods in time
What are ice ages
200
The area near the equator between 23.5 degrees north latitude and 23.5 degrees south latitude.
What is tropical zone?
200
Another force that impacts surface currents
What is Coriolis effect?
200
Arid regions that receive less than 25 cm of rain per year.
What are deserts?
200
Increase of temperature of Earth's atmosphere
What is global warming?
300
Zones between tropical zones and polar zones.
What is temperate zones?
300
Warm water event that moves sheet of warm water to move east toward the South American coast.
What is El Nino?
300
Warmest temperate marine climates
What is humid subtropical?
300
Gases in atmosphere that trap energy
What is greenhouse gases?
400
Streams of water within the oceans that move in regular patterns
What is ocean currents?
400
Amount of dissolved salt in a water sample
What is salinity?
400
Climates that are north of humid continental climates
What is subartic?
400
Large area of reduced ozone
What is ozone hole?
500
The side of mountains that receives precipitation
What is windward?
500
Movement of cold water upward from the deep ocean
What is upwelling?
500
Permanently frozen tundra soil
What is permafrost?
500
Compounds that depletes ozone
What is chlorofluorocarbons?
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