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| The day-to-day charachteristics of local atmospheric conditions. |
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| Long term pattern of weather. Weather records are kept over long periods of time to inform us about climate. |
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| How can weather affect our lives? |
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- Raining out a baseball game
- A snowstorm can cancel school
- Fresh snow makes excellent conditions for skiing
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| How does Latitude come in with weathering? |
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| Latitude places closer to the equator, experenice warmer tempetures than places further away from the equator. |
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| How does sun rays effect the earth? |
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| The sun rays that strike the earth closer to the equator care concentrated, however due to the curvature of the earth, solar rays that strike the earth further away are more spread out. |
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| What is Moderating Effect of water |
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Water heats up and cools down more slowly than land. In summer large bodies of water will be cooler than the land. Winds blowing off the water will have a cooling effect on the adjecent land.
Similary, the same thing happends in water, except the water is warmer and will have a warming effect on adjacent land. This is why Maritime locations have mild climates. (cooler summers and warmer winters) |
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| The tempeture of an Ocean current affects the tempeture of the air that passes over it. One the west coast we have the cold labrador current and warm Gulf stream. The Gulf stream moderates the climate of Nova Scotia, and Southern New Foundland and Labrador. |
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| What is Prevailling Winds? |
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| Moving air couses winds around the earth there are high and low pressure bets. The prevailing winds in North America are west, to east called westerlies. These prevailing winds have a strong influence on weather patterns. |
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| What happends when the Labrador Current and the Gulf stream comes together? |
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| When the Labrador current and gulf stream comes together this creates clamp and foggy conditions making it difficult to navigate ships. |
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| WHat is the Polar Jet Stream? |
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| Is a current of air at high altitude which moves from west to east(300-500Km/h). This current acts as a boundry between cold artic air and warm gulf air. In the winter the polar jet stream shifts south bringing cooler air to the united states. In the summer it shifts north, bringing warm gulf air to canada. |
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| What are some examples or precipitaion? |
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| why does Precipitation occur? |
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| One air cools as it rises. Two as air cools, water vapour condenses more than it evaporates |
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| One, relif meaning as air crosses an area of high elevation (up a mountain) it rises. Two convection- air is warmed by the earths surface and then rises (usually summer), Three cyclonic- a mass off cooler dense air pushes beneath a mass of warm air and pushes it ip. |
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| What does Northern Artic mean? |
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| What does Southern Artic mean? |
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| How does latitude affect tempeture? |
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| places closer to the quator expereince warmer tempetures than places further away from the quator. |
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| What is the Pacific Maritime? |
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| Something near hte pacific ocean |
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| what is the atlantic maritime? |
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| Something ner the atlantic ocean? |
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| How does tempeture change going up in elevation? |
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| it will be warmer because when warm air rises it gets cooler and then condenses. |
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| Forests that have both deciduous and coniferous trees growing naturally. |
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| A treeless grass-covered plain in the united states and canada. |
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| what is the boreal plains? |
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| A large area of fairly dry land, with few trees |
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| what is the hudson plains? |
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| Somewhere near the hudson bay |
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| What is the Taiga Plains? |
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| The level or nearly level plain with dense coniferous forest and continuous permafrost in the north. |
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| what is the Artic cordillera? |
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| The region that lies around the North POle. The area is extremely cold. |
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| what is the Taiga Cordillera? |
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| Tundra and scattered forest; poor soil and bare rock. |
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| What is Boreal Cordillera? |
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| Variety or mountain soils with various coniferous trees. |
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| What is Montaine cordillera? |
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| A group of mountains located together to form one large mountainous region. |
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| What is the Boreal Sheild? |
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| Forested area dominated by spruce, fir and pine trees |
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| what is the Taiga sheild? |
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| A broad flat area of exposed rock that lies at the center of each continent. |
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| A region based on its ecological charactersitics |
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| What are Ecozones based on? |
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1. Human Actutes
2. Vegitation
3. landform
4. soil
5. Geology
6. Climate |
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| Which of the following best describe air masses? |
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A)A large volume of air that takes the climate conditions of the area where it is formed.
B)A large volume of air that takes the weather conditions of the area where it is formed.
C) A large volume of air that takes the climate conditions of the are4a off the ocean.
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| The boundary between the cold, dry polar air and warm, wet tropical air is called what? |
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A) Jet stream
B) Tropical Front
C) Artic front
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