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Causes of Climate
Currents and Climates
Climate Regions
Climate Change
Climate influences
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Area near the equator, between about 23.5 north latitude and 23.5 south latitude.
What is the Tropical Zone?
100
brings up tiny ocean organisms, minerals, and other nutrients from the deeper layers of the water.
What is upwelling and what does it bring up?
100
temperature and precipitation
How is climate classified?
100
Gases in the atmosphere that trap energy
What are green house gases?
100
long term, average weather of a place
What is Climate?
200
Prevailing winds, Mountain Ranges, Seasonal Winds
What three factors affect precipitation?
200
Short-term changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean caused by changes in ocean surface currents and prevailing winds
What is El Nino and La Nina?
200
tropical rainy, dry, temperate marine, temperate continental, polar, and high lands
What are the climate regions?
200
Chemicals produced by humans have been damaging and hurting it.
What is the ozone layer?
200
A measure of how hot or cold an object is compared to a reference point?
What is temperature
300
Latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, and ocean currents
What four factors affect temperature?
300
tropical wet and tropical wet-and-dry
What are the Tropical Rainy Climates?
300
Dust bowls, more hurricanes, raising sea levels
What are possible effects of global warming?
300
The process by which heat is trapped in the atmosphere by water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases that form a "blanket" around earth
What is the green house effect?
400
Small area with climate conditions that differ from those around it
What is microclimate?
400
May take 1,000 years to flow from the pole to the equator and back again.
What are deep currents?
400
only found in the Northern Hemisphere
What are Temperate Continental Climates?
400
large area of reduced ozone
What is the ozone hole?
400
Winds that blow steadily from specific directions over long distances.
What are global winds?
500
the amount of energy each hemisphere receives from the sun.
What does the Earth axis cause?
500
Fishers would not waste fishing materials and it would be helpful so fishers would know when to fish
Why would the ability to predict El Nino be important for fishers?
500
Mosses, grasses, lichens
What type of vegetation is found on the tundra?
500
A major cause of ozone depletion, also known as CFCs
What are chlorofluorocarbons?
500
The shape of the land determined by elevation, relief. and landforms.
What is topography?