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The Greenhouse Effect
Latitude
Winds and Ocean Currents
Climate Regions
Earth's Revolution
100
When the atmosphere traps heat and keeps it from escaping back into space too quickly, keeping the Earth warm
What is the greenhouse effect?
100
This zone of latitude is between 30 degrees S and 30 degrees N.
What is low latitudes?
100
global winds, blowing if fairly constant patterns
What is prevailing winds?
100
Tropical climates found in or near the low latitudes.
What is the Tropics?
100
An imaginary line running from the North Pole to the South Pole through the planet's center.
What is Earth's axis?
200
caused by human activities,a rise in atmospheric CO2 levels has coincided with a general rise in global temperatures.
What is global warming?
200
Causes a temperature of a place to decrease because the air is thinner and retains less heat.
What is elevation?
200
a narrow, generally windless band located at the Equator, north of the Topic of Cancer, and south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is doldrums?
200
dry, largely treeless grasslands bordering deserts.
What is steppes?
200
the season when it starts to get dark outside earlier in the day
What is winter?
300
formed by the exhaust released from burning fossil fuels in automobile engines and factories is heated in the atmosphere by the sun's ultraviolet rays.
What is smog?
300
Earth's polar areas, which stretch from 60 degrees N to 90 degrees N and from 60 degrees S to 90 degrees S.
What is high latitudes?
300
Global winds are displaced clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere because Earth rotates to the east.
What is Coriolis Effect?
300
Mid latitude climate with mild, rainy winters and hot, sunny summers with natural vegetation that includes thickets of woody bushes and short trees.
What is Mediterranean climate?
300
The northern most point on the Earth to receive the sun's direct rays.
What is Tropic of Cancer?
400
acids that fall in rain and snow when burning fossil fuels release gases that mix with water in the air
What is acid ran?
400
Polar areas north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic circle.
What is high latitudes?
400
Prevailing winds in the midlatitudes, blowing diagonally west to east between about 30 degrees N and 60 degrees N and between about 30 degrees S and 60 degrees S.
What is Westerlies?
400
permanently frozen subsoil found in high latitude climates.
What is permafrost?
400
Marks the beginning of the summer in the Northern Hemisphere and is the longest day of sunlight.
What is the summer solstice?
500
scientific explanation.
What is hypothesis?
500
Midlatitude climate that ranges from from fairly hot to fairly cold
What is temperate climate?
500
blow from the northeast toward the Equator from abut latitude 30 degrees N and from the southeast toward the Equator from about latitude 30 degrees S.
What is trade winds?
500
Nebraska's climate region
What is Humid Continental?
500
the condition of the atmosphere in one place during a limited period of time.
What is weather?