Climate
Determined by temperature and precipitation.
What factors determine climate?
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
Zones located at the North and South Pole.
What are the polar zones?
A long period of cooling during which ice sheets spread beyond the polar regions.
What is an ice age?
Describes the weather condition over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Wind, temperature, air pressure, etc.
What factors determine weather?
Climate zone located by the equator.
What is the tropical climate zone?
A gradual increase in average global temperature.
What is global warming?
Rain, snow, sleet, and/or hail.
What is precipitation?
The angular distance of a place north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
The climate zones in between the polar zones and the tropical zone.
What are the temperate zones?
The clearing of a large amount of trees in a forest.
What is deforestation?
This powers wind.
What is the sun?
Air that moves horizontally, or parallel to the ground.
What is wind?
Influences wind patterns and the transfer of energy in an area.
What is topography?
The process by which gases in the atmosphere absorb and radiate energy as heat back to Earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Energy from the sun.
What is solar energy?
Amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Refers to the height of an area above sea level.
What is elevation?
The original island (all continents combined) before tectonic plate motion.
What is Pangea?