Importance of Climate
Describing Climate
Factors Affecting Climate
Causes of Climate Change
100
What is global warming?
The increase in Earth's temperature on its surface
100
What do we use to see an areas average monthly precipitation and temperatures?
Climate graphs
100
What weather phenomenon can be caused by the three global climate factors?
Hurricanes
100
Reducing the consequences of a problem
Mitigation
200
What is climate change?
Changes in long term weather patterns caused by natural events or human activity
200
What are areas with places of similar climate grouped together called?
Climate Regions
200
What are the three global climate factors?
wind and air masses, latitude, ocean currents
200
CO2, methane, and ozone are examples of what?
Greenhouse gases
300
List at least one way climate affects us/our daily lives
What we eat
What we wear
How we live (shelters we live in)
300
What is precipitation?
Rain, sleet, snow, ice
300
What are the three local climate factors?
Elevation, relief, bodies of water
300
Humans create greenhouse gases by burning what?
Fossil fuels
400
What climate phenomenon does this picture represent?
Global warming
400
These 5 parts make up the _______ _______ _______:
The earth’s surface (landforms)
The atmosphere
All the water on earth
All the ice on earth
All the life on earth (plants, animals, insects, and us!)
Global Climate System
400
What is an air mass?
Large body of air that has similar temperature and moisture conditions throughout
400
How do volcano eruptions affect Earth's climate?
Dust and ash fills the air and reduces the heat entering Earth's climate system
500
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
500
When does this place have summer? (Hottest months)
June/July
500
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
500
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