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Elements of weather
What influences weather
Climate
Climate Change
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100
Is the equator a latitude line or a longitude line?
What is latitude
100
Define ice age.
What is a long period of cooling during which ice sheets spread beyond the polar regions
100
During the La Nina years, ocean temperatures get _______.
What is cooler
200
What forms when air temperature goes below dew point
What is condensation
200
In a high pressure system, what does the air do?
What is sinks and warms
200
What are the three main climate zones determined by?
What is latitude
200
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
What is an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
200
Most of earth's energy comes from ___ ___.
What is the sun
300
What does an anemometer measure?
What is wind speed
300
what causes surface currents?
What is winds
300
What are the three main climate zones?
What is Temperate, Polar, and Tropical
300
What are the two main human activity's that can cause climate change?
What is deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels
300
A wind vane measures _____ ________.
What is wind direction
400
What type of cloud forms when the wind is strong?
What is Cirrus Clouds
400
What are the four parts to the water cycle?
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff
400
What powers the water cycle?
What is the sun
400
What happens during the El Nino years?
What is ocean temperatures are higher
400
_____ is air that moves horizontally or parallel to the ground.
What is wind
500
What are two factors that can affect visibility?
What is pollution and fog
500
What are the two jet streams?
What is polar and subtropical
500
What angle do the sun's rays hit the equator at?
What is 90 degrees
500
What difficulty does using new technologies have on the world?
What is the cost
500
_________ refers to the height of an area above sea level.
What is elevation