Climate Factors
The distance from the equator a place is.
What is Latitude?
The ash and gas released from this natural phenomenon can have a cooling effect on the planet.
What are volcanic eruptions?
Animals no longer move at the same times or to the same locations.
What is changes in migration patterns?
What are humans?
These trap some radiation from the sun to warm the planet.
What are greenhouse gases?
Measured in meters above sea level
What is elevation?
This is the leading theory for what caused the dinosaurs to go extinct.
What is a massive meteor strike?
Drought has made these far more common in Alberta.
What are Wildfires?
This greenhouse gas is a major concern and many people/organizations are trying to reduce our emissions of this gas.
What is C02?
What is Methane?
Is a tool that emits a radio signal and allows meteorologists to detect precipitation, where it is, and how much is falling.
What is radar?
The name for the effect that explains why urban areas tend to be hotter.
What is the urban heat island effect?
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
The melting permafrost has particular impact on this group of people.
Who are the Inuit?
Large scale production that includes factories and natural resource extraction.
What is industrialization?
Long-term patterns of weather that are what we expect for an area.
What is climate?
This geographical factor makes an area less extreme; it is not very hot or cold.
What is proximity to large body of water?
Methane, Carbon dioxide and water vapours are all examples.
What are Greenhouse Gases?
Weevils and leaf rust are examples of this threat to argiculture.
What are pests?
Wind, solar, tidal and hydro are examples.
What are renewable energy sources?
The loss of this means that less sunlight is reflected into space and it means that the planet will warm even faster.
What is melting sea ice?
The name of the regions farthest from the equator.
What is the arctic?
This natural phenomenon can cause the climate to change and the cycles are called Milankovitch Cycles.
What are changes to the Earth's orbit?
________ ___________ ___________ have resulted in hurricanes being more powerful, more common and starting earlier.
What is warmer ocean temperatures?
This is the largest source of energy for electricity generation in Alberta.
What is natural gas?
The name of the effect that shows how much sunlight is reflected back into space because the surface is white.