The continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
What is the water cycle?
100
A weather pattern of hot summers, cold winters, and low annual precipitation.
What is a continental climate?
100
Clouds that produce precipitation.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
100
The speed that winds need to reach for a tropical storm to become a hurricane.
What is 75mph?
100
Are seasons long term or short term climate changes?
Seasons are short term climate changes. Seasons change often.
200
The changing of gas to a liquid as heat is removed
What is condensation?
200
The average weather pattern over a region.
What is climate?
200
Clouds that form at a high altitude and are blanket-like
What are cirrostratus clouds?
200
The sound given off by the explosive expansion of air heated by a light stroke.
What is thunder?
200
What causes an El Nino?
The warming of the ocean water on the western coast of South America.
300
The temperature at which moisture in the atmosphere condenses because the air is saturated.
What is the dew point?
300
The distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
300
A large region of the atmosphere in which the air has similar properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
300
Scientists have determine what past climates were like by comparing past temperatures and the amount of this in the atmosphere?
What is a CO2.
300
Are El Nino and La Nino long-term or short-term climate changes?
They are short term, they occur many times in a person's life time.
400
The force exerted on a given area by the weight of the air above it
What is air pressure?
400
The two main factors that determine the climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?
400
Lines on a weather map that connect points with equal air pressure.
What is an isobar?
400
The weakest point of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
400
How does plate tectonics affect climate in terms of a location to a body of water?
The movement can change the location to a large body of water, the distance increases the climate is more extreme.
500
The Earth's rotation pushes the winds to either the right or the left?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
Plate tectonics affects climate in terms of where an ice sheet can be formed because of latitude of a location. If latitude increases, the likelihood of an ice sheet forming _________.
What is increases.
500
When warm air moves in over a cold air mass and brings light steady rain or snow.
What is a warm front?
500
Warm humid air pulled into a funnel shaped column.
What is a tornado?
500
Plate tectonics affects climate in terms of latitude: if latitude increases, the temperature is likely to ___________