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Causes of Weather
Climates & How they Change
Precipitation
Climates of the World
Human Activity & the ClimateThis
100
This percentage of thermal energy from the Sun is absorbed by the Earth.
What is 50%?
100
Florida's climate is warmer than that of Maine because of their distance from the Equator called this.
What is latitude?
100
Warm air temperature & warm ground temperature.
What is rain?
100
Hot summers, cool winters; light precipitation.
What is desert?
100
Global warming is resulting in melting glaciers and polar ice caps, causing sea levels to do this.
What is rise?
200
Prevailing winds in the U.S. causes westerlies which result in weather systems moving from this cardinal direction to this one.
What is from west to east?
200
This causes differences in the amount of vegetation among the temperate climate?
What is precipitation?
200
Warm air temperature & cold ground temperature.
What is sleet?
200
Cold all year; light precipitation.
What is polar?
200
Buildings, roads, and sidewalks tend to hold heat longer than these.
What are trees?
300
A large body of air with the same conditions throughout.
What is air masses?
300
Located in Greenland, this is evidence of the Ice Age of Earth thousands of years ago.
What is glacier?
300
Cold air temperature & warm ground temperature accompanied by updrafts.
What is hail?
300
Hot all year; medium to heavy precipitation.
What is tropical?
300
The rapid rising of Earth's average temperature.
What is global warming?
400
Cold fronts on a weather map are represented by these.
What are blue triangles?
400
City temperatures are on average about this much warmer than the countryside.
What is 15 degrees Fahrenheit?
400
Cold air temperature & cold ground temperature.
What is snow?
400
Cold winters, cool summers; medium to heavy precipitation.
What is mountain?
400
This short term climate change occurs every two to ten years.
What is El Nino?
500
Because of prevailing winds, winds blowing to the equator tend to curve to this direction.
What is west?
500
These are the two major factors that influence climate.
What are temperature & precipitation?
500
Cold air temperature & warm ground temperature.
What is freezing rain?
500
This is the climate in which we all live. (Double points if you can also name its characteristics.)
What is temperate?
500
Process of carbon dioxide that's in the air absorbing heat.
What is greenhouse effect?