Köppen
Seasons
Gases
Consequences
Remedies
100
A place where evaporation is consistently greater than precipitation.
What is a desert?
100
The angle at which the earth's axis is tilted, relative to its orbit around the sun.
What is 23.5 degrees?
100
The principle greenhouse gas, which is a byproduct of the burning of fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
This has already begun to rise because of melting glaciers AND the expansion of upper layers of ocean water.
What is sea level?
100
Reducing the reliance on this kind of food in the human diet can greatly reduce the impact of agriculture on climate change.
What is meat?
200
The climate of a place receiving most of its annual precipitation in a short period of time.
What is a monsoon?
200
The common name for a region centered on the equator, outside of which the sun never appears directly overhead.
What are the tropics?
200
A greenhouse gas emitted by bovine flatulence, decay of landfill refuse, and the growing of paddy rice.
What is methane?
200
Abbreviated IPCC, this U.N. body reports regularly on the findings of climate scientists.
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
200
Research that improves the efficiency of these common devices is considered essential for reducing greenhouse emissions.
What are batteries?
300
A tropical climate that is dry overall with a summer or winter that is severely dry.
What is savanna?
300
The name for a line of latitude, north of which days can comprise either 24 hours of daylight or no daylight at all.
What is the Arctic Circle?
300
The amount of time it has taken humans to return to the atmosphere about half of the carbon removed from the atmosphere in the process of forming fossil fuels over the previous 250 million years.
What is 250 years?
300
Populations in this class of animals are increasing as winter freezing becomes briefer and less common in many regions.
What are insects?
300
Choosing this popular beverage from shade-grown crops sequesters carbon, supports a healthier local environment for the farmers who grow it, and improves flavor.
What is coffee?
400
Characterized by warm, dry summers and cool, mild winters, this climate is well suited to the growing of grapes and olives.
What is Mediterranean?
400
Greek for "close to the sun" this event in early January of each year has no effect on earth's seasons.
What is the perihelion?
400
A category of powerful greenhouse gases used for refrigeration and other the production of insulating foams.
What are CFCs?
400
Warmer temperatures lead to ocean acidification, which causes bleaching and decline in these diverse marine environments.
What are coral reefs?
400
A way of managing land -- even a small residential property -- that provides food, supports biodiversity, and relies as much as possible on local resources.
What is permaculture?
500
Trees that are found in places with enough year-round heat and moisture to sustain the growth of woody plants but that also experience a winter cold enough to preclude the year-round presence of leaves.
What is are deciduous trees?
500
An important band of atmospheric activity that is abbreviated ITCZ.
What is the intertropical convergence zone?
500
A heat-trapping gas whose local concentration can vary from 0 to 4 percent according to time and location, it does not contribute to climate change because its total concentration is not changing.
What is water vapor?
500
Rapid changes in local weather -- especially in the mid-latitudes -- is a consequence of atmospheric circulation becoming less zonal and crossing latitudes in this kind of flow.
What is meridional flow?
500
Garret Hardin's landmark essay that explains why individual sacrifices are not sufficient to resolve problems of scarcity in common resources.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?