Climate
Climate Factors 1
Climate Factors 2
Climate Factors 3
Climate Zones
Miscellaneous
100
The pattern of weather that occurs in an area over many years.
What is climate?
100
If you live on the windward side of a mountain, your climate would be described as...
What is cool and wet?
100
The cause of latitude-specific climate zones.
What is the uneven heating of Earth's surface due to axis tilt?
100
The three major climate regions that Earth is broken down into
What is polar, temperate, and tropical
100
The climate zone of Antarctica
What is Ice Cap
100
The name for a climate zone when you also describe the plant and animal life.
What is a biome
200
The state of the atmosphere at any particular time or place.
What is weather?
200
This is the reason that San Diego has little temperature variation throughout the year
What is It is near a large body of water which has a high specific heat
200
New York City and St. Louis are at the same latitude. Why does St. Louis experience a greater average temperature compared to NYC?
What is St. Louis is farther from the ocean coast?
200
This is the primary cause of Earth's seasons.
What is Earth's axis tilt?
200
This climate zone has a dry season where the area can resemble a desert and a wet season where it is full of life.
What is subtropical savanna
200
The way the density of air molecules changes as you go up in altitude.
What is the air molecules become less packed together (less dense).
300
Small areas with climates that differ from the surrounding area
What are microclimates
300
If you live on the leeward side of a large mountain range, your climate would most likely be classified as.
What is Dry Arid or Semiarid?
300
The direction most weather fronts tend to move in North America
What is West to East
300
The cause of surface ocean currents.
What is wind?
300
The climate region that is represented by the red graph is..
Temperate Region
300
The latitude line found at 23.5 degrees north.
What is the Tropic of Cancer
400
The Latin word for "whiteness". It is used to describe how much sunlight is reflected from the surface of the Earth.
What is "albedo"
400
The global factor that is most important in determining climate.
What is latitude
400
The warm current that flows across the Atlantic toward Europe.
What is Gulf Stream
400
The reason that the Himalayan mountains are snow covered even though they border the tropical and and desert climate zones
What is high elevation
400
This climate zone has 4 distinct seasons with warm summers, cold winters and mild fall/spring months.
What is humid continental
400
The critical threshold in the climate system that, if crossed, can lead to large, irreversible changes.
What is a tipping point
500
(At least) three properties that are used to describe climate or weather.
Air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and the type, quantity, and frequency of precipitation
500
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a front
500
As water vapor evaporates from warm ocean currents around the equator, _____________ carry the water vapor away from the equator to cooler regions.
What is Trade Winds
500
Compared to the climate of location A, location B would be?
What is warmer and less humid
500
The following climate graph is from from the __________ hemisphere
Southern
500
The three climate drivers that make up the Milankovitch Cycles
Eccentricity (Shape of Earth's orbit around the sun), Obliquity (Earth's tilt), and Precession (Earth's wobble)