Altitude and Latitude are distances from _____ and ____ respectively.
What are sea level and the equator?
Scientists classify climates by these 2 things.
What are temperature and precipitation?
This climate region has the coldest temperature range.
What is polar?
This principle helps scientists study the past.
What is the principle that things now need the same things before?
Energy-rich substances formed from the remains of organisms are ___.
What are fossil fuels?
Sea and land breezes that change direction with the seasons are _____.
What are monsoons?
The two subcategories of dry climats are ___ and ___.
What are arid and semiarid?
___. ___. and ___are all under temperate marine climates.
What are humid subtropical, marine west coast, and Mediterranean?
The release of aerosols by volcanic activity does this to temperature.
What is lower it?
The greenhouse effect uses greenhouse gases like ____.
What are water vapor, methane, or carbon dioxide?
_______ bring weather corresponding to the type of temperature it carries.
What are ocean currents?
The highland temperatures are in a relation similar to which landform?
What are mountains/hills/plateaus?
Tropical wet and tropical wet-and-dry are associated with these two habitats (respectively).
What are rain forests and savannas?
These three things are used to study ancient climates.
What are pollen, tree rings, and ice cores?
FInding clean energy sources, increasing energy efficiency, and carbon removal are all attempts to stop this.
What is global warming?
Prevailing winds hit this side of a mountain, giving great vegetation and plant life.
What is windward?
There are 6 climate regions, which are (name all 6).
What are tropical rainy, dry, temperate continental, temperate marine, polar, and highland?
Temperate continental climates can only be found in the Northern Hemisphere because of this.
What is that there are no large areas of land at the right latitude?
(extra points, what is latitude?)
When a part of the surface of the Sun gets cooler, releasing more light, it's called a ___.
What is a sunspot?
By increasing the level of greenhouse gases, humans have been able to do this.
What is to raise global temperatures?
Marine climates cause ___ winters and ___ summers, while continental climates cause ___ winters and ___ summers.
What are mild, cool, cold, hot?
In a climate graph, the red line represents ___
What is temperature?
In a climate fraph, the blue bars represent ___.
What is precipitation?
Possible reasons for major climate change are ___, ___, ___, and ___.
What are continental movement, amount of solar energy, volcanic activity, and Earth's relative position to the Sun?
What are melting glaciers, rising sea levels, drought, desertification, biosphere changes, and regional temperature changes?