Vocabulary
Earth-Sun-Atmosphere
Factors Affecting Climate
World Climate Regions
Misc.
100
The condition of the atmosphere in one place during a limited period of time.
What is Weather?
100
Reason for winds on the earth
What is unequal heating?
100
North or south on the earth
What is latitude
100
Associated with deserts.
What is dry?
100
Wind hits this side of a mountain
What is windward?
200
Streams of water that move through the oceans.
What is Currents?
200
Reason for the 3 main temperate zones
What is earth tilt towards sun?
200
Movement of air due to unequal heating
What is wind?
200
Associated with hot
What tropical?
200
Dry side of a mountain
What is leeward?
300
Permanently frozen ground
What is tundra?
300
Degree of earth tilt in relation to the sun
What is 23.5 degrees
300
Primary two factors
What are temperature and precipitation?
300
Another term for High elevation.
What is Highlands?
300
Reason for rain on the windward side and dry conditions on the leeward side.
What is air rises and cools and loses ability to hold moisture?
400
Too dry to sustain agriculture
What is arid?
400
Atmospheric gas associated with global warming.
What is carbon dioxide ?
400
Vocabulary term for features on the earth's surface
What is topography?
400
Very cold
What is Polar?
400
This effect causes prevailing winds to blow diagonally or with a curve rather than along strict north-south or east-west lines.
What is a Coriolis Effect?
500
Types of trees that have broad leaves that change color and drop in the Autumn.
What is Deciduous Trees?
500
Water heats up and cools down (rate)
What is relatively slowly?
500
Location, Location, Location determines temperature range.
What is near an ocean or inland?
500
Three causes of temporary climate changes
What are meteorite strikes, volcanic eruptions, seasons, large cities
500
It keeps heat from escaping too quickly into space.
What is Atmosphere?
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