Average temperatures
Average precipitation
Seasonal changes in these averages
What is Climate based on?
100
Energy is the ability to cause
change.
What is Energy?
100
energy due to motion
What is Kinetic Energy?
100
Position of continents affects ocean circulation
how do Position of the continents change climate?
100
Eccentricity (the elliptical changes in the earths orbit around the sun)
Obliquity (the tilt of Earth's axis toward and away from the sun)
Precession (the wobble of Earth's axis toward and away from the sun)
What are the three causes?
200
Short Term
How long is weather?
200
SUN
What is the primary source of energy for the Earth?
200
energy that is
stored due to the interactions
between objects
What is Potential energy?
200
The tilt slowly changes from 21.8° from the vertical to 24.4° from the vertical over 41,000 years
What is Tilt (obliquity)?
200
the elliptical changes in the earths orbit around the sun
What is Eccentricity?
300
horizontal
Latitude lines are vertical or horizontal?
300
Through Photosynthesis
So how can energy
change forms?
300
Heat energy
What is Thermal Energy?
300
Snow accumulates over the winter months, Cooler summers allow some of the snow to remain and build up year after year eventually forming ice sheets
How does the ice build up?
300
the tilt of Earth's axis toward and away from the sun
What is Obliquity?
400
Rain shadow
What helps create deserts?
400
Energy cannot be created from nothing or completely destroyed, only changed from one form to another.
What is First Law of
Thermodynamics?
400
Mechanical energy is the energy that is
possessed by an object due to its motion or
due to its position.
What is Mechanical Energy?
400
Lots of active volcanoes add carbon dioxide to the
atmosphere enhancing the greenhouse effect and leading to
ice-free period
How do volcanoes affect climate change?
400
the wobble of Earth's axis toward and away from the sun
What is Precession?
500
water temps. remain stable, and land temps. change frequently
Coastlines have stable temperatures
What is Continental Location?
500
When energy changes
form, it becomes less
and less useful.
What is Second Law of
Thermodynamics?
500
Energy caused by
the movement of
electrons
What is Electrical Energy?
500
El Niño = warm surface current in equatorial eastern
Pacific that occurs periodically around Christmastime
What is El Niño?
500
These changes impact seasonality and location of solar energy on the Earth
Changes the differences between the seasons