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100
Mean temperature of warmest month is less than 10 degrees C and precipitation is generally low
What is the polar climate?
100
The two variables graphed on a climatogram
What are temperature and precipitation?
100
A building that has furniture and carpeting and that release air pollutants and 20% or more of the people in the building experience illness
What is a "sick" building?
100
The reason there would be more hurricanes if global temperature increased.
What is hurricanes need warm water, so more warm water = more hurricanes?
100
natural heating of Earth’s surface caused by certain atmospheric gases
What is the greenhouse effect?
200
The climatic zone in which continental air masses dominate, precipitation is low, vegetation is scarce, solar radiation is intense, and clouds are few
What is the dry climate?
200
Natural climate cycles that occur every year and are determined by the direction of Earth's axis
What are seasons?
200
Why is tropospheric ozone bad?
What is because it damages our lungs?
200
The type of weather that might be expected in western Europe if global warming slows down the Atlantic Ocean circulation.
What is a mini ice age?
200
a rise in global temperatures
What is global warming?
300
Characterized by constant high temperatures, up to 600 cm of rain falls each year, and lush rain forests predominate
What is tropical climate?
300
Factors that determine climate OTHER THAN temperature and precipitation (name two)
What are proximity to water, altitude, and latitude?
300
The single largest source of air pollution in the U.S.
What is automobile exhaust?
300
Marine organisms that turn white in warm, acidic water (because they die)
What are corals? (coral bleaching)
300
____________________ is a place in a city where the climate is warmer than in the surrounding countryside.
What is a heat island?
400
Prevails in the southeastern United States, summers are warm and muggy, and winters are dry and cool
What is mild climate?
400
What happens to the average global temperature when Earth's orbit is more circular and Earth is farther from the Sun
What is temperatures become cooler?
400
The structure of ozone (include whether it's stable or unstable)
What is three oxygen atoms bound together - unstable?
400
The region of the globe that is feeling the effects of global warming the most.
What is the poles?
400
A localized climate that differs from the main regional climate
What is a microclimate?
500
A widely used climate classification system is the ____ system.
What is Koeppen?
500
a warm ocean current that develops off the coast of South America
What is El Nino?
500
Name at least two effects of acid rain.
What are poor forest health, breathing difficulty, death of aquatic life, brain damage/cancer, erosion of buildings/monuments/paint?
500
The two causes of sea level rise
What are melting of glaciers and thermal expansion of water molecules?
500
the greenhouse gas with the largest influence on the greenhouse effect
What is water vapor?