Earth Spheres
Climate vs Weather
Climate Change
Glacier Vocab
Polar Region Clothing
100

Rocks, geodes, boulders, caverns.

What is the geosphere? 

100

Thunderstorms passed through today.

What is weather? 

100

Increase in wildfire activity.

What are the effects of climate change?

100
Sand, minimal rainfall, cacti, very warm days and cool nights.

What is a desert?

100

Rainboots, hiking boots, muck boots, snow shoes.

What is proper footwear for Alaska?

200

Insects, animals, plants.

What is the biosphere? 

200

Juneau's annual rainfall is 54 inches at the airport.

What is climate?

200

Water, coal, oil.

What are resources that are being depleted? 

200

A rock deposited that is different from those around it.

What is a glacial erratic?
200

Cotton, denim, sandals.

What are things not to wear on a hike?

300

Clouds, air, weather, lightning.

What is the atmosphere? 

300

Today is unseasonably warm.

What is the weather?

300

Wind power, solar power, hydroelectricity. 

What are renewable energies? 

300

Linear erosion found on a rock.

What are striations? 

300

Synthetic fiber clothes, raincoat, wool socks, layers.

What to wear in Alaska during the summer? 

400

Precipitation, lakes, oceans, rivers. 

What is the hydrosphere? 

400

 The average temperature in Omak in June is 82 degrees.

What is climate?

400

Methane, Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide.

What are greenhouse gases? 

400

A mass of rocks or sediments deposited by a glacier.

What is a moraine?

400

Sunscreen, bug spray, hat, sunglass.

What are things to protect you from the sun and bugs?

500

Mendenhall glacier, snow, ice burgs, sleet.

What is the cryosphere? 

500

Tornado!!!!!

What is weather? 

500

Green sea turtle, Chinook Salmon, Polar Bears.

What are animals on the verge of extinction? 

500

A carbon sink.

What is a peat bog? 

500

Xtratuf

What is the most popular footwear in Alaska?