Weather & Climate
Who is weather studied by?
By Meteoroligists
Biome with the coldest climate.
What is tundra biome?
What is Climate zones?
They are regions with similar weather conditions
Does the greenhouse effect make things hotter or cooler
What is hotter?
The movement of air from areas of high to low pressure
What is Wind?
What the tilt of the earth?
23.5 degrees.
What is climate and geography?
What is the red line in a Climateograph
The temperature
Definition of Insolation
What is the amount of solar radiation received?
The places ocean currents move 2 different types of water
What is ocean currents move warm water towards the pole and cold water towards the equator?
The meaning of lithosphere
lithos=rock,the rock layer around the earth
The number of different terrestrial biomes on Earth.
What is 11?
What is a Climateograph?
A graph that mesures a region for multiple years
The amount of albedo that covers our planet
What is 30%?
The 3 ways thermal energy transfer can occur
Two factors that affect the climate
tilt and the movemnt of the earth.
The amount of Earth the marine biome covers.
What is 70%?
What is the Blue line in a climateograph?
The rainfall
The way temperature of the Earth rises
What are greenhouse gases acting like a blanket around our planet and trapping heat inside?
Jet stream
What is Jet stream is
What is the precipitation range in the temperate grassland?
250-600mm/y
The biome in which we live in (Pickering).
What is temperate deciduous forest?
What climate is Ontario?
temperate deciduous forest
4 of the greenhouse gases that contribute to the natural greenhouse effect
What is water vapour, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane?
The Coriolis Effect
What is how objects, fluids, and even wind are deflected to the right of their path of motion in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere