Affects the Climate
Name the two factors for climate.
What is latitude and location?
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The thing is six times the specific heat of sand.
What is water?
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The person who developed a system for classifying climate.
Who is Wladimir Köppen?
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The weather progresses during the day to its highest point.
Why does the temperature get warmer?
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The time Earth revolves around the sun.
What are 365 days?
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On a globe, this increases north and south from 0 to 90.
What is latitude?
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A warm, flowing current flows northward along the coast of eastern North America.
What is the Gulf Stream?
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The thing absorbs solar radiation.
What is concrete?
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The cold periods last for millions of years, when glaciers cover much of the Earth.
What are ice ages?
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The combined ocean and atmospheric cycle results in weakened trade winds across the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Niño/Southern Oscillation?
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The colder, the higher you go up from the ground.
What is altitude?
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The sand feels warmer than the water.
What is specific heat?
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A localized climate that is different from the climate of the larger area surrounding it.
What is microclimate?
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The warm periods that occur during ice ages.
What are interglacials?
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The wind circulation pattern changes direction with the seasons.
What is a monsoon?
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The long-term average weather in a particular region.
What is climate?
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The amount of thermal energy needed to raise the temperature.
What is specific heat?
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The temperature, precipitation, and native plants.
What helps classify a region's climate?
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We know the past climates.
What are natural records of climate?
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The amount of solar energy received at different times.
What are seasons?
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An area of low rainfall on the downwind slope of a mountain.
What is a rain shadow?
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The coast of the U.S has moderate temperatures year-round.
What is the West Coast?
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When organisms change because of the climate.
What is adaptation?
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The most recent ice age.
When was 2.6 million years ago?
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The world's largest monsoon is found here.
Where is India?
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