What is Climate?
Short term periods of climate chage
What are seasons
The main greenhouse gas
What is carbon dioxide
The region that receives the most radiation
What is tropics
the driest of all climate regions
Who is arid?
Wind patterns and topographic features
What helps to create seasonal climate changes
Global temperatures are rising
What is Global Warming
causes warm water currents in eastern Pacific to replace normal cold water off Calif. coast. Produces heavy rain & severe weather conditions.
What is El Nino?
the coldest of all climate regions
What is polar?
Natural heating caused by gases in our atmosphere trapping heat
What is The Greenhouse Effect
A period where animals are inactive in winter
What is hibernation?
latitude, topography, location of lakes and oceans, availability of moisture, global wind patterns, oceans and currents, and location of air masses
What are factors that affect the climate
Temperature, moisture and amount of sunlight
What are climate factors that can limit where an organism can live
Periods of extensive glacires
What are ice ages
UV radiation breaks CFC's down to
causes currents to curve to the right in Northern Hemisphere & left in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
the day to day conditions that are present in a given area
What is weather?
the start of the industrial revolution
What is the 1800's?
the area where the ozone hole is the largest
What are the poles?
Sea and Land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons
What are monsoons?