Currents flow in these directions in their respective hemispheres.
What is clockwise in northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in southern hemisphere?
100
Year-round high temperatures, close to equator
What is tropical?
100
The two variables, average temperature and precipitation, are used to find this.
What is climate?
100
A classification system for climates based on the average monthly values of temperature and precipitation.
What is Koppen Classification System?
100
Energy from the sun gets to earth in this way
What is by (solar) radiation (using electromagnetic waves to transfer the heat)?
200
This is when trade winds blow stronger than normal and cause warm dry winters in Southern US
What is La Nina?
200
Mild winters, precipitation levels vary
What is mild?
200
The climate of this elevated location is is cooler and higher in precipitation than other places of the same latitude.
What are mountains?
200
This is the effect of large bodies of water on climate.
What is the effect that water heats and cools more slowly than landmasses?
200
This is used to display annual average temperature and precipitation information for a city or region...
What are climatograms?
300
Movements of ocean water in a continuous flow, created largely by surface winds
What are currents?
300
30% of land on Earth; more evaporation than precipitation present
What is dry?
300
the warming of water in the Pacific Ocean due to a weakening of winds; brings storms and flooding; disrupts ocean food chains
What is El Niño?
300
This side of the mountain has a moist and cool climate.
What is windward side?
300
This determines the timing of the season.
What is the Earth's Wobble?
400
This is when two global wind systems that flow between 30 degrees north and south latitudes where air sinks, warms, and returns to the equator in a westerly direction
What are trade winds?
400
Cold winters and moderate precipitation
What is continental?
400
This effect is the natural heating of the Earth's surface caused by atmospheric gases.
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
This side of the mountain has a dry and warm climate.
What is leeward side?
400
These three pieces of evidence provide us with information regarding natural causes of climate change.
What are ice core samples, seafloor sediments, and fossil records?
500
The ocean is a source of these three items.
What are atmospheric oxygen, heat, and moisture?
500
Cold year-round, no vegetation
What is polar?
500
The largest contributor to the increasing amount of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) present in the atmosphere
What is the use of fossil fuels? (Energy production like coal plants for example...)