Climate as System
The component of the climate system that refers to all life
What is Biosphere?
What is latitude?
The name of the imaginary line the runs around middle of the earth separating the northern and southern hemisphere.
What is the equator?
The 5 components of the climate system.
What are the Hydrosphere/Oceans, Cryosphere, Atmosphere, Land Masses, Biosphere?
The reason that Worcester has more extreme temperatures than Boston.
What is nearness to water?
One rotation of earth on its axis causes....
What is day and night?
The input and output of the climate system.
What are: input: heat; output: life?
The reason that you may see snow on top of a mountain even in the summer.
What is elevation?
Earth traveling around the sun once is...
What is a year?
Two components of the climate system that exchange carbon through photosynthesis.
What are atmosphere/biosphere?
The factor that explains why a town that is separated from the ocean by a mountain range will be drier than towns right next to the ocean.
What is relief?
The season in the northern hemisphere when the north pole is tilted toward the sun.
What is summer?
The two components that exchange carbon when humans burn fossil fuels.
What are land masses/atmosphere?
The reason the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of the US is warm enough to swim in in the summer but the Pacific Ocean on the west coast is often still very cold in the summer.
What are ocean currents?
The season in the southern hemisphere when both poles are oriented parallel to the sun (neither facing toward or away).
What is fall/spring?