The pattern of weather that occurs in an area over many years.
What is climate?
100
Any structure of behavior that helps an organism survive in their environment.
What is adaptation?
100
Short periods of climatic change caused by changes in the amount of solar radiation an area receives.
What are seasons?
100
It is said that this wobbles.
What is the Earth's axis?
100
These affect coastal climates.
What are ocean currents?
200
The region between 23 degrees N and 23 degrees S latitudes.
What are the tropics?
200
People who study climates.
What are climatologists?
200
A climatic event that begins in the tropical Pacific Ocean; may occur when trade winds weaken or reverse, and can disrupt normal temperature and precipitation patterns around the world.
What is El Nino?
200
The movement of continents and oceans affect the transfer of heat on Earth and affects wind and precipitation patterns.
What is crustal plate movement?
200
At the same latitude, the climate is colder here.
What are mountains?
300
The area between 66 degrees N and 23 degrees S latitude.
What are the polar zones?
300
Behavioral adaptation for winter survival in which an animal's activity is greatly reduced and its body temperature drops.
What is hibernation?
300
A natural heating that occurs when certain gases in Earth's atmosphere trap heat.
What is the greenhouse effect?
300
The 3 most important greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere.
What are water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane?
300
Water heats and cools more slowly than land. This causes the climate near these to be affected.
What are large bodies of water?
400
The area between the tropics and the polar zone.
What is the temperate zone?
400
The person who developed a system for classifying climates.
Who is Wladimir Koppen?
400
This says that the average global temperature of Earth is rising.
What is global warming?
400
When natural gas, oil, and coal are burned for energy this increases in the atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
400
Streets, parking lots, and buildings heat the air in these areas.
What are cities?
500
Averaging the weather of a region over a long period of time determines this:
What is climate?
500
An inactive state that animals enter during hot, dry weather.
What is estivation?
500
Destroying and cutting down forest.
What is deforestation?
500
The side of the mountain that has heavy precipitation.
What is the windward?
500
The leeward side of the mountain generally has these.