Climate
Climate Factors
Climate Zones
Human Impacts
Currents
100
The pattern of weather that occurs in an area over many years.
What is climate?
100
If you live on the windward side of a mountain, your climate would be described as...
What is cool and wet?
100
The climate zone of Antarctica
What is Polar
100
The name of the natural process that stores heat in the atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
100
This is a constant moving fluid (water or air)
What is a current?
200
The state of the atmosphere at any particular time or place.
What is weather?
200
If you live on the leeward side of a large mountain range, your climate would most likely be classified as.
What is Dry Arid or Semiarid?
200
This climate zone has notably warmer summers and colder winters.
What is the temperate zone?
200
List two man made causes of climate change
burning of fossil fuels, livestock, farming, releasing chemicals, deforestation
200
Cause of ocean and atmospheric currents
convection/heat
300
This is the distance from the equator
What is latitude?
300
Prevailing winds that come from the east and move west
What are Easterlies?
300
The climate that is represented by the red graph is..
Temperate
300
This fossil fuel produces the most greenhouse gas emission when burned
What is coal?
300
What two factors cause deep ocean currents?
Temperature and salinity
400
These are the main factors that determine an area's climate
What are temperature and precipitation?
400
This is the primary cause of Earth's seasons.
What is Earth's axis tilt?
400
What kind of climate zone is this?
Tropical/Equatorial
400
What are three main greenhouse gases?
Possible answers: Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, Water vapor, Hydroflurocarbons, hexafluoride
400
How do warm ocean currents affect the land next to them?
Cause warmer and more humid climates
500
The cause of latitude-specific climate zones.
What is the uneven heating of Earth's surface due to axis tilt?
500
The reason why the southern hemisphere has more stable temperatures than the northern hemisphere
There is less land/more water in the southern hemisphere
500
The following climate graph is from from the __________ hemisphere
Southern
500
Give an example of a feedback loop
Answers vary
500
This causes currents to move east and west instead of just north and south
What is Coriolis