Climate and Weather
Evidence of Past Climate Change
Evidence of climate change today
Natural Factors that affect Climate
Earth's Energy Balance
100
What is Average weather conditions in a region over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
100
Information found in natural materials that give clues in what the climate was like in the past?
What is a proxy record
100
The recent trend of increasing average temperatures of Earth's surface
What is Global warming
100
Energy from the sun is ______ energy
What is solar
100
What happens to Solar Energy when it hits the earth?
What is reflected or absorbed
200
What is the difference between climate and weather?
What is long term times and short term periods
200
What is the name of a person who studies climates and there phenomena?
What is a climatologist
200
The increase in the volume of matter as its temperature increases
What is thermal expansion
200
What kind of radation includes short wave length and high energy?
What is ultra violet rays
200
These hold thermal energy?
What is a heat sink?
300
A person who studies atmospheric conditions especially on predicting weather
What is a meteorogist?
300
Small organisms that live in large groups in the ocean
What is Coral
300
More heat waves and violent storms such as hurricanes and tornadoes, more rain in regions, less rain in some other regions
What is change
300
What is a natural factor in determing climate?
What is how much solar energy a region receives
300
What is the best type of heat sink?
What is a ocean?
400
What are climate zones classified by?
What is temperature, precipitation adn plant life?
400
Slowly forms layers of rock on the ocean floor
What is sediment form
400
One cause is global warming. As global temperatures increase, the ice in glaciers and ice sheets melt
What is causes to sea levels rising
400
During our summer the ______ Pole is tilted toward the sun?
What is North
400
The energy of particles associated with temperature and shanges of state
What is thermal energy
500
Hudson Plain, Boreal Shield, mixed Wood Plain?
What are the three exozones of Ontario?
500
Why should people be concerned about melthing glaciers and ice sheets
What is rising sea levels
500
What are four natural factors that affect the climate?
What is solar energy, Latitude, Earths tilt and Earths wobble
500
When the amount of enery coming in is the same amount ______ ____?
What is going out
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