What Causes Climate?
Land and air change temperatures at different rates. This one is faster at changing temperatures.
What is land?
While climate refers to the general trends of the atmosphere in a region, this refers to how the atmosphere is behaving in a particular moment.
What is Weather?
A climatogram is a chart showing monthly this and this for a given region.
What are precipitation and temperature?
This describes the change in global or regional climate patterns, typically due to human activity.
What is climate change?
These Storms, who gain their power from warm ocean water, are made more dangerous due to increased ocean water temperatures in association with Climate Change
What are Hurricanes?
Proximity to this makes climates less extreme, and have closer to constant temperatures year round.
During the summertime (longer days, higher temperatures), sunlight is closer to this angle to the ground. (180°, 90°, 45°, 0°)
What is 90°?
This Climate Zone is defined by being arid (dry), with very little precipitation.
What is Zone B?
The this effect involves certain gasses in the atmosphere trapping heat from the sun, controlling the Earth's temperature?
What is Greenhouse Effect?
Rising Sea Levels are primarily caused by these two factors.
What are ice melting (from land) and thermal expansion? (200 each)
This effect results in land past mountainous regions to rain much less frequently, even close to large bodies of water.
This climate pattern results in weakened trade winds, and pushes warm water towards the east coast of the Americas.
What is El Niño?
The Ice Cap Climate Zone has this type of ice, meaning that it stays frozen through the summer
What is Perennial Ice?
This is the main gas that tends to trap in heat the atmosphere. It is critical for keeping earth at a stable temperature, but in high quantities can cause extreme swings in temperature
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Increased Range of these vectors due to changes in climate are cause for concern for human populations, especially where healthcare is less accessible.
What are disease (vector)s?
This type of precipitation causes regions to remain cold, by reflecting solar energy, instead of absorbing it.
What is snow?
This climate pattern results in stronger trade winds, and pushes cold, nutrient rich water towards the east coast of the Americas due to upwelling
What is La Niña?
This Climate Zones is characterized by high temperatures (at least 64°F) and precipitation (2.36") every month.
What are Equatorial Rainforests? (Af)
What is Global Warming Potential?
As temperatures increase, polar permafrost melts, uncovering this, which release methane and carbon dioxide gas.
What is decaying organic matter?
As you move further north, the area hit by the same amount of sunlight this (increases or decreases).
What is increases?
These structures on the surface of the sun behave in 11 year cycles, and impact Earth's climate due to changes in solar activity
What are sun spots?
Sketch a Climatogram for a CSa (Mediterranean) climate zone. Use bars for percipitation and a line for temperature.
Great Job!
(Mild with dry, hot summer. Warmest month has average temperature more than 72°F (22°C). At least four months with average temperatures over 50°F (10°C). Frost danger in winter. At least three times as much precipitation during wettest winter months as in the driest summer month.)
This is the source of excess greenhouse gases that are emitted as a result of ice caps melting.
What is decomposing biological matter?
As carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean, it is converted into this chemical, resulting in ocean acidification.
What is Carbonic Acid?