Climate Change
Types Of Climates
Ocean Currents
Ozone Layer
Miscelaneous
100
The average weather in an area year after year.
What is climate?
100
The tundra does.
What climate has short summers and bitterly cold winters?
100
Two types of ocean currents are shallow water current and deep water currents.
What are the two types of ocean currents?
100
Ozone Hole is located in the stratosphere above Antarctica.
Where is the Ozone Hole located?
100
A Microclimate is the climate condition of a small area that differs from those around it.
What is microclimate?
200
Carbon dioxide has been increased 40 percent in the last 200 years.
How much carbon dioxide has increased in the atmosphere in the last 200 years?
200
Two tropical rainy climates are 1. Tropical wet and dry and 2. Tropical wet.
What are the two types of tropical rainy climates?
200
Surface currents are formed due to winds.
How are surface currents formed?
200
If Ozone layer in the stratosphere disappears it can cause harmful UV rays to enter earth's atmosphere.
What happens if the Ozone layer in the stratosphere disappear?
200
The tropical zone is the area near the equator, at about 23.5 degrees north latitude and 23.5 degrees south latitude.
What is Tropical zone?
300
The northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun and the southern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun.
Which hemisphere is tilted toward the sun? i
300
San Francisco is in the marine west coast climate.
What climate San Francisco in?
300
Deep water currents are formed due to the difference in salinity and temperature of the water.
Why are deep water currents formed?
300
Ozone layer gets thinned out by the chlorofluorocarbons.
What causes the Ozone layer to disappear?
300
Temperate zones lie between the tropical zone and the polar zones.
Where do temperate zones lie?
400
Carbon dioxide is generated by the burning of fossil fuels.
How does carbon dioxide end up in the atmosphere?
400
Some of the attributes of highlands are that they are cooler and wetter, and their temperature is low due to the high altitude.
What are some of the attributes of highlands?
400
Upwelling brings tiny ocean organisms, minerals and other things from the deepest reaches of the ocean to the surface water.
What is upwelling bring to the surface of the water?
400
Ozone Layer is an accumulation of Ozone in the stratosphere above the earth.
What is Ozone Layer?
400
The marine climates are influenced by the ocean currents.
Which climates are influenced by ocean currents?
500
Our water supply is turned salty due to the melting of polar ice caps.
What are some problems that can occur when the earth is heating up?
500
An example of a semiarid climate is the great planes.
What is an example of a semiarid climate?
500
El Nino is the warm water coming to the pacific coast and La Nino is the cold water coming to the western shoreline from the pacific.
What is El Nino and La Nino?
500
The ozone hole is a large area of reduced ozone.
What is Ozone hole?
500
Surface currents and deep currents together form a global conveyor belt.
What is global conveyor belt?
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