Importance of Climate
Describing Climate
Factors Affecting Climate
Causes of Climate Change
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What is global warming?

The increase in Earth's temperature on its surface

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What do we use to see an areas average monthly precipitation and temperatures?

Climate graphs


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What weather phenomenon can be caused by the three global climate factors?

Hurricanes

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Reducing the consequences of a problem

Mitigation

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What is climate change?

Changes in long term weather patterns caused by natural events or human activity
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What are areas with places of similar climate grouped together called?

Climate Regions


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What are the three global climate factors?

wind and air masses, latitude, ocean currents

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CO2, methane, and ozone are examples of what?

Greenhouse gases

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List at least one way climate affects us/our daily lives

What we eat

What we wear

How we live (shelters we live in)

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What is precipitation?

Rain, sleet, snow, ice

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What are the three local climate factors?

Elevation, relief, bodies of water

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Humans create greenhouse gases by burning what?

Fossil fuels

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What climate phenomenon does this picture represent?

Global warming

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These 5 parts make up the _______ _______ _______:

  1. The earth’s surface (landforms)

  2. The atmosphere

  3. All the water on earth

  4. All the ice on earth

  5. All the life on earth (plants, animals, insects, and us!)

Global Climate System

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What is an air mass?

Large body of air that has similar temperature and moisture conditions throughout

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How do volcano eruptions affect Earth's climate?

Dust and ash fills the air and reduces the heat entering Earth's climate system

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What is the difference between weather and climate?

Weather is the short term conditions of air in a place at a time

Climate is the average weather over a long period of time in a place

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When does this place have summer? (Hottest months)

June/July

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What climate factor accounts for this situation: 

The Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland is considered the foggiest place on earth

Bodies of water

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Earth's climate is a balance between how much Energy is received from the sun and how much leaves earth. ________ ________ is what happens when that balance is altered.

Climate Change

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