What Causes Climate?
Currents & Climate
Climate Regions
Climate Regions Cont.
Climate Change
100
The average condition of temperature, precipitation, wind, and clouds, in an area.
What is climate?
100
Surface water and deep sea water
What do currents move?
100
By using temperature and amounts of precipitation.
How do scientists classify climate regions?
100
Dry land that gets enough rainfall for short grasses and bushes to grow.
What is a steppe?
100
Warm periods of time that have alternated with cold periods of time.
What are ice ages.
200
They are different because weather is daily and is more precise, while climate is the overall temperature and amount of precipitation of an area.
What is the difference between weather and climate?
200
They are moved by wind and warms or cools the air around them.
What are surface currents moved by and what do they do?
200
Tropic Wet and Tropical Wet-and-Dry.
What types of climates are in the tropics?
200
Permanently frozen tundra soil.
What is permafrost?
200
A large area of reduced ozone.
What is an ozone hole?
300
Latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, and ocean currents affect it.
What factors affect temperature?
300
They are short term changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean caused by surface currents and winds.
What are El Niño and La Niña?
300
The arid and semiarid climates.
What are the dry climates?
300
Because they hold at least half the worlds plant and animal life.
Why are Tropical Rainforests important?
300
A group of compounds; aka CFC's.
What are clorofluorocarbons?
400
Prevailing winds, the presence of mountains, and seasonal winds affect weather.
What factors affect precipitation?
400
They are caused by differences in the density of the ocean water and they carry cold water from the poles to the equator.
What are deep sea currents caused by and what do they carry?
400
The Marine West Coast, Mediterranean, and Humid Subtropical climates.
What are the Temperate Marine Climates?
400
Ice Caps and Tundras.
What are the Polar Climates?
400
Human activities that add greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere.
What causes global warming?
500
They are caused by the tilt of Earth's atmospheres Earth revolves around the Sun.
What are seasons caused by?
500
It brings up tiny ocean particles and nutrients from deep layers of water.
What does upwelling bring up?
500
They are found in the Northern Hemisphere and consist of Humid Continental and Subarctic climates.
Where are the Temperate Continental Climates found and what are they?
500
Regions that are colder than regions around them.
What are highland regions?
500
Chemicals produced by humans. A major source are CFC's.
What causes ozone depletion?
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