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| Factors affecting climate |
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1. Wind currents
2. Ocean currents
3. Elevation
4. Topography
5 .El nino 6. Global Warming |
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| How do wind and ocean currents affect climate? |
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| They distribute the sun's heat world wide. |
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| Upward motion of warm air or water and downward motion of cold air or water that results in the transfer heat |
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| Bending of wind due to the earth's rotation |
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resemble rivers flowing in the ocean
Warm water flows away from the equator to the poles
Cold water flows back towards the equator |
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| Describe Low or Tropical Zone of Latitude |
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| Describe Middle or Temperate Zone of Latitude |
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| Warm summers, cold winters |
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| Describe High or Polar Zone of Latitude |
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| Describe Tropical wet climate |
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| always hot, daily rainfall that adds up to more than 80"/year |
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| Describe Tropical wet/dry climate |
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| warm, wet summer / cooler dry winter |
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| Describe Semiarid climate |
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| Hot summer / mild to cold winter; little percipitation |
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| Describe two kinds of Desert climate |
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hot, cool
cold
less than 10" rainfall / year |
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| Describe Mediteranian climate |
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| Summers dry & hot / winters cool & rainy |
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| Describe Marine west coast climate |
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| Moderate temperatures, frequently foggy, cloudy, damp |
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| Describe Humid subtropical climate |
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Long periods of summer heat & humidity /
mild cool winters |
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| Describe Humid contenental climate |
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| Great variety of temperature, precipitation. 4 seasons |
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| Describe Subartic climate |
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summers are shot & cool
winters are long and cold |
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Describe Tundra climate
(Flat treeless ring(?) of lands around artic ocean) |
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| Snow & ice - permanently freezig temperatures |
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| Describe Highlands climate |
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| Climate varys with latitude, elevation, and topography location |
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| Five General Climate Regions |
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Tropical
Dry
Mid-latitude
High latitude
Highland
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| What two things defines a climate |
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| Temperature and precipitation |
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Mid-wintwer
shortest day of the year in that hemisphere |
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Mid summer
Longest day of the year in that hemisphere |
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When the tilt of Earth's axis neither inclines away from nor towards the Sun.
Mid spring and mid fall |
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| atmospheric conditions at a particular location and time |
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| Weather conditions at a particular locaation over a long period of time |
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| Clouds that may hold water vapor |
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landforms
elevation
air movement |
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Forrest
grassland
desert
tundra |
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Decidious
Coniferous
Mixed forrest of the above two
Rain forrest
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| needle leaf trees, cone bearing |
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| prairie- temperate grassland of North America |
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| cacti conserve water, withstand heat |
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| How do humans alter landscape? |
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We adapt to land or change it to our needs
Building dams
Installing irrigation systems
planting crops
slash/burn vegitation
Not in notes:
bulldozing dirt onto wetlands |
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| a thin layer of weathered rock, humus, air, water |
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| interdependent community of plants and animals |
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| the ecosystem of a region |
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