Climate Factors
The short-term conditions in an area
What is weather?
The process by which gases trap heat, keeping Earth warm
What is the greenhouse effect?
A sudden or gradual change in Earth's climate
What is climate change?
The long-term weather pattern in an area
What is climate?
Periods in time where Earth's climate was 5 to 15 degrees Celsius cooler, causing huge glaciers to extend well beyond the ice caps
What is Ice ages?
The back side of a mountain where little precipitation falls
What is a rain shadow?
The gradual increase in Earth's temperature
What is global warming?
As the amount of greenhouse gases are increasing, this is happening to the temperature
What is the temperature is rising?
The latitude line that is in the middle of the Earth; it is at 0 degrees
What is the equator?
As altitude goes up, this happens to the temperature
What is the temperature decreases?
The three type of temperature zones Earth is divided into based on latitude
What is tropical, polar, and temperate?
The main reason for the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
What is human activities?
The two forms of energy that can help to slow down climate change
What is wind and solar?
Free square, pick a number 1-20.
What is 13?
Free square, pick a number 1-20?
What is 15?
A seasonal change in wind patterns and precipitation that provide wet summers and dry winters
What is a monsoon?
A natural process that can affect Earth's climate
What is the movement of continents, changes in solar radiation, or volcanic eruptions?
A city that is at risk of going underwater in the near future due to rising sea levels that have resulted from global warming
What is Miami?
The three options humans have when facing climate change
What is suffer, adapt, or mitigate?
The flow of warm water when talking about ocean currents
What is the warm water flows from the equator towards the poles?
The 5 factors that affect an area climate
What is latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, ocean currents, and global prevailing winds?
The three most common greenhouse gases
What is carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor?
An unforeseen chain of events caused by a disturbance in a system
What is a cascade effect?
The three things scientists look at when classifying an area's climate
What is average temperature, average annual precipitation, and the vegetation found growing there?
The two main human activities that are increasing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
What is mining and burning fossil fuels and deforestation?