What causes Climate?
Currents and Climate
Climate Regions
Climate Change
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100
What is Ocean Currents
What are marine climates influenced by?
100
What is global winds to curve as a result of Earth's rotation.
What does the Coriolis Effect cause?
100
What is tropical rainy, dry, temperate marine, temperate continental, polar, and highlands.
What are the six main climate regions?
100
What is warm periods alternated with Cold periods.
What are Ice ages?
100
What is water.
The Earth is mostly covered in ________.
200
What is prevailing winds, the presence of mountains, and seasonal winds.
What are the main factors that affect precipitation?
200
What is Surface Currents.
What does the Coriolis effect influence?
200
What is temperature and Precipitation.
What do scientists classify climates according to two major factors?
200
What is gradual increase in the temperature of Earth's atmosphere.
What is Global Warming?
200
What is atmosphere.
Energy from the Sun makes water end up in the ________.
300
What is the tilt of Earth's axis
What are the seasons caused by?
300
What is winds
What are surface currents driven by?
300
What is forests in which large amounts of rain fall year round.
What are Rain Forests?
300
What is gases in the atmosphere that trap energy?
What are greenhouse gases?
300
What is temperature and precipitation.
Plants grow through _________ and ____________.
400
What is latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, and ocean currents.
What are the main factors that influence temperature?
400
What is when an unusual pattern of winds form over the western pacific.
When does El Nino begin?
400
What is tropical grasslands.
What are Savannas?
400
What is the Ozone Layer.
Chemicals produced by humans have been damaging what?
400
What is climate.
In the past few hundred years, _________ has warmed.
500
What is the long-term, average conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds i the area.
What does climate refer to?
500
What is changes in Ocean surface currents and prevailing winds.
What are El Nino and La Nina caused by?
500
What is arid and semiarid climates.
What do Dry climates include?
500
What is Chlorofluorocarbons.
A major cause of ozone depletion is a group of compounds called what?
500
What is Global Warming.
__________ is caused by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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