Seasons
The angle of the tilt of Earth is ____.
What is 23.5 degrees?
The average weather pattern over a long period of time in a particular region.
What is climate?
Scientists are concerned about increasing average temperatures and can contribute this to climate change. What name have they given this phenomena?
What is global warming?
When these get trapped in the atmosphere, they cause a warming in our atmosphere we call the greenhouse effect.
Greenhouse Gases
The amount of time it takes Earth to complete one revolution around the sun.
What is a year?
If you begin with summer, what is the order in which the seasons occur?
Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
The melting of our polar ice caps has been contributed primarily to _____
What is global warming
The ____ is important for the atmosphere to keep it warm enough for us to live on earth.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
the name of the shape of the Earth's orbital path is called ____.
What is elliptical.
The hemisphere that is pointing away from the sun is in ____.
What is winter.
precipitation, temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, wind direction, humidity, are all terms used to describe _____ (weather or climate)
What is weather.
the term we use to describe when heat is trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is ___.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
What is the amount of time it takes Earth to complete one revolution around the sun, one year?
365 1/4 days
In July, there are ____ daylight hours than in February.
more
Latitude, Vegetation, Elevation, Prevailing Winds, Volcanic Eruptions, and Deforestation are all factors that effect ____.
What is climate?
The most abundant source of greenhouse gas in our atmosphere is carbon dioxide. This is caused by the burning of _____.
What is fossil fuels.
A climate region that experiences distinct seasons; Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring is called ___. (polar, temperate, tropical)
What is Temperate?
How would the seasons be effected if Earth had no tilt?
There would be no seasons. The temperatures in each area would stay the same year round.
What are the 2 reasons that different locations on Earth receive different amounts of sunlight ?
angle of the Earth's tilt
curve of the Earth's surface
the only other planet in our solar system that has the greenhouse effect?
What is Venus?
The meteorologist predicts ___ each day.
What is the weather?