Weather Factors
Seasons
Climate Factors
Climate Regions
Heat Transfer
100
Give two examples of a local wind.
What is a 1. sea breeze and 2. land breeze.
100
What causes the seasons?
What is Earth's tilted axis as it revolves around the sun.
100
The two main factors that scientists categorize climate regions by
What is temperature and precipitation.
100
What climate region has deciduous and coniferous forests?
What is temperate continental.
100
Name the three forms of heat transfer.
What is conduction, convection, and radiation.
200
Describe why the direction of wind is predictable.
What is wind always blows from high pressure areas to low pressure areas.
200
What is the position of Earth's axis during winter in the Northern Hemisphere?
What is the axis is pointed away from the Sun.
200
The side of a mountain that gets more precipitation and has more vegetation
What is the windward side.
200
What are the six main climate regions?
What is Tropical Rainy, Dry, Temperate Marine, Temperate Continental, Polar, and Highlands.
200
Which form of heat transfer heats the air above the surface of the Earth?
What is conduction.
300
The name that describes the effect of the Earth's rotation and wind patterns is known as ___________________.
What is the Coriolis Effect.
300
At which point(s) of the year is the axis neither pointed away or toward the sun?
What is fall and spring.
300
Prevailing winds and the presence of mountains are the two main factors that affect
What is precipitation.
300
What are the two biomes of dry regions?
What is the desert and steppe.
300
Which form of heat transfer is mostly responsible for heating Earth's atmosphere?
What is convection (currents).
400
What are two examples of global wind patterns?
What is prevailing westerlies, polar easterlies, trade winds, or jet streams.
400
Is the Earth in summer or winter if it receives less direct sun rays?
What is winter. The sun rays are more spread out over a larger area.
400
The reason that England, which is at the same latitude as Montreal, has much milder winters.
What is the Gulf Stream.
400
How is the savannah different than a rainforest?
What is the savannah has a dry season.
400
What is the main source of energy that heats Earth's surface?
What is radiant energy from the Sun.
500
What is the relationship between air temperature and air pressure?
What is higher temperatures produce low air pressure and cooler temperatures produce high air pressure.
500
How does the angle of the sun's rays relate to the amount of radiation?
What is greater angles provide more radiation, and lower angles provide less radiation.
500
Four factors that influence the temperature of a climate are
What is 1. Nearness to a large body of water, 2. Latitude, 3. Altitude, and 4. Ocean Currents
500
Which climate zone would you find permafrost in?
What is polar. (Tundra/IceCap biomes)
500
What type of heat transfer occurs when you burn your hand on a metal spoon in a hot cup of tea?
What is conduction.
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