Why is Climate Important?
Define: Weather
Weather is the conditions of air in a particular place at a particular time
How many climate regions are there?
Nine
Climate graphs are the combination of which two graphs
What are the six major natural climate factors?
Air masses and winds, Latitude, Ocean currents, Elevation, Relief, Bodies of water
As elevation increases temperatures becomes...
a) warmer
or
b) cooler
B
Define: Climate
Climate is the average weather of an area over a long period of time
Hot with dry season
True or False: Climate graphs are made up of an average monthly temperature and average monthly precipitation of a location
TRUE
Define: Prevailing wind
The wind that blows most commonly in an area
a) High relief
b) Low relief
c) No relief
A
True or False: Climate change is the changes in short-term weather patterns.
FALSE
Climate change is the changes in LONG-TERM weather patterns.
Toronto's climate region is...
Continental
True or false: In a climate graph the temperature is the line graph and the precipitation is the line graph
FALSE: the temperature is the line graph and the precipitation is the bar graph
True or False: An air mass is a large body of air that has similar temperature and moisture conditions throughout.
TRUE
Bodies of water create ______ for land nearby
Name one impact of climate change
Acceptable answers:
- Changing the types and amount of crops that can be grown
- Melting ice, ice sheets, and glaciers
- Water rising from all the melting ice causing sea levels to rise
- Increase in extreme weather events (floods, tornados, etc
Mountainous climate region is described as...
Altitude affects climate
What do we write along the x-axis on a climate graph?
The months of the year
Oceans make up __% of Earths surface
70%
For Canada, the prevailing winds are from the _____
a) east
or
b) west
B
Why will climate change have a greater negative impact on places like Africa, Asia, and Central America?
Because these areas are still developing, so they do not have enough money to build stronger shelters or by more resources
Athens, Greece belongs to the climate region...
Mild
Why do geographers compare climate graphs over an area and over long periods of time?
To understand the changing climate
Ocean currents affect climate by...
a) transporting heat and affecting temperature and precipitation patterns
or
b) Influencing underwater ecosystems only
A
Why does the northern hemisphere have more rising warm air than the southern hemisphere?
Because there is more land in the northern hemisphere, and since land heats up more quickly than water, there is more warm rising air in the northern hemisphere.