TEMPERATURE
Temperature is...
the amount of heat in the atmosphere
What humidity is?
It is the amount of water vapour in the air.
What is atmospheric pressure?
It is the weight of the air on the Earth's surface
What climates can we find in the cold zones?
Polar and mountain
What is the air pollution?
It is the contamination of the atmosphere by pollutants
How many climate zones can we find in the Earth? List them
We can find 5: one hot zone, two temperate zones and two cold zones
What precipitation is?
It is the falling of water to the Earth as rain, snow or hail.
What are anticyclones? What weather do they cause?
They are areas of high pressure and cause dry and stable weather
What climates can we find in temperate zones?
Mediterranean, oceanic and continental.
What is acid rain?
It is rain water combined with harmful gases
Temperatures vary according to three different factors. List them.
Latitud, altitude and the distance from the sea
List the three different types of rainfall.
Conventional rain, orographic rain and frontal rain.
What is wind?
It is a mass of moving air.
What climates can we find in the hot zone?
Equatorial, tropical and hot desert.
What is the layer which protects the Earth from the Sun's ultraviolet rays?
It is the ozone layer
Temperatures are ... near the Equator
higher
Where is orographic rain found?
It is found in montainous regions.
What is a depression? What weather do it cause?
It is an area of low pressure, and it causes unstable weather, rain ad storms.
What are the consequences of the global warming?
Climate change and the melting of the polar ice caps
What is the global warming?
It is the increase of average temperatures on the Earth's surface.
The lines used on a map to join areas with the same temperature are called...
isotherms
Precipitation is measured by...
a rain gauge or pluviometer
The lines used on a map to connect areas that have the same atmospheric pressure are the socalled...
Isobars
Define greenhouse effect.
It is a natural process by which a mixture of carbon dioxide and water vapour prevents solar heat from leaving the Earth's surface.
In 1997 an international treaty was signed in order to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. What is the name of this treaty?
Kyoto Protocol.