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Climate cycles
Compare weather and climate
100
Atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes, of a certain place at a certain time.
What is weather?
100
The long-term average weather conditions that occur in a particular region.
What is climate?
100
Name one way climate affects living organisms.
Answers will vary.
-Polar bears have thick fur and a layer of fat
-Desert plants have large, shallow root systems to collect rainwater
-Humans build houses on stilts so thermal energy does not melt permafrost
100
True or false. Climate on Earth today is the same as it has been in the past.
False.
100
How are climate and weather related?
Climate is the trend in weather of an area over time (at least 30 years!)
200
The pressure that a column of air exerts on the air, or surface, below it.
Air pressure
200
What are the 4 main influencers of climate?
Latitude, altitude, geography and topography
200
A localized climate that is different from the climate of the large area surrounding it.
What is a microclimate?
200
What is an interglacial period?
Warm periods that occur DURING ice ages.
200
What is the one factor that is a MAJOR difference between weather and climate?
Time.
300
An atmospheric factor that most defines a "muggy" day.
What is humidity?
300
What is a rainshadow?
An area of low rainfall on the downwind slope of a mountain.
300
What climate is closest to the equator?
Tropical climate
300
What two factors cause long term climate changes?
The shape of the Earth's orbit, and the changes in the Earth's tilt
300
How do meteorologist make forecast about weather?
They input current weather data into a computer model.
400
Uneven heating of the Earth's surface causes this breezy occurrence.
What is wind?
400
How are climates classified?
By temperature, precipitation, and native vegetation.
400
Compare Location 1 to Location 2?
Answers will vary.
Location 1 will experience more rainfall.Location 2 is a rainshadow.
400
What is El nino/ Southern Oscillation?
When the trade winds weaken and reverse normal patterns of high and low pressure, causing warm water to surge back towards South America.
400
How are measurements of weather and climate different? Think math words!
Weather is measured in ranges.
Climate is measured in averages.
500
This severe weather event starts over water.
What is a hurricane?
500
The amount of thermal energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a material by 1 degree Celsius.
What is specific heat?
500
When air in the atmosphere gets warmed by the ground it does what? Moving from an area of _____ pressure to an area of ____ pressure.
Rises. High, Low
500
Why does Australia experience Summer equinox on December 21st, while we experience Winter solstice on the same day?
Because we tilted the farthest AWAY from the sun during this time, while the Southern hemisphere is tilted TOWARDS the sun.
500
What climate is found mostly north of the equator?
(Hint! We are in it, and it has 4 seasons!)
Temperate climate