What factors effect climate?
What are the 6 major climate factors?
Air masses and wind, latitude, ocean currents, elevation, relief, and bodies of water
What are the several rigid plates in the earths crust called ?
Plate Tectonics
What is mitigation and adaptation
Mitigation- Action taken to reduce the consequences of a problem
Adaptation- a change or adjustment made to deal with a new situation
What is the removal of forests called?
Deforestation
What are the 3 types of winds?
Prevailing winds, Trade winds, and air masses
What is the surface crust called?
The lithosphere
What are, "Greenhouse gasses"
Gasses that absorb energy from the sun. The gasses include CO2, Methane, and ozone.
What is the change from fertile land into deserts called?
Desertification
How do landforms affect us today?
They affect our size and layouts for our buildings and communities.
What is, "relief"
The difference in high between the highest point and the lowest point
How do the plates move constantly?
The plates move from convection flow underneath them
What affect do greenhouse gasses have on the climate
The greenhouse gasses trap some of the suns energy, causing the world to heat up, resulting in climate change.
What do plants do when an area has become to cold for them to live in?
They migrate to warmer areas.
How did landforms in a region affect peoples way of life? (In the past)
The landforms in a region affected people way of life since they influenced the kind of food that was available, and how they obtained it, and finally, it influenced the types of structures they built for shelter.
What does elevation effect?
Local climate. Eg, when elevation increases, temperatures becomes cooler.
What do the plates float on?
The plates float on the asthenosphere, a layer under the lithosphere
What are the human made sources of greenhouse gasses (Hint- there are 6)
1.Waste
2. agriculture
3.Industry
4.Homes and businesses
5.Transportation
6.energy production
How does the process of fertile land into deserts happen?
the process of fertile land into deserts is caused by climate change, but can also be caused from poor farming methods.
What are all the landform types? (Hint- there are 7)
Mountains, Volcanic mountains, shields, valleys, V-shapes valley, Plain's, Plateaus
What is, "relief precipitation"
When moisture in the air condenses and falls to Earth.
What are the 3 different types of plate boundaries? Define them.
Divergent plate boundaries- when 2 plates move away from each other
Transform plate boundaries- when side-by-side plate boundaries grind past each other
convergent plate boundaries- when 2 plates move towards each other and one moves on top of another
What are the natural causes of climate change?
(Hint- there are 3)
1. the sun releases more energy then usual every 11 years
2. The Earths tilt changes from 22° to 25°. It happens in a 41,000 year cycle.
3. Dust and ash from volcanoes can stay in the atmosphere, causing the amount of solar energy entering the earth to be reduced.
What are humans contributing to that is causing changes in vegetation patterns?
Climate change.
How are Volcanic mountains created?
Volcanic mountains are created when a volcano erupts, and causes lava to cool into rock outside of the volcano.