Climate

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What is atmosphere?

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Blanket of air around the planet

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What is climate?

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Tells us what a place is usually like at a certain time of the year

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What is current?

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A mass of air, body of water, etc. that has a steady flow in a particular direction.

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What is elevation?

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The height of the land

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What is humidity?

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The amount of water in the air

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What is polar climate?

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Part of the world's climatic regions which is marked with cold climate conditions

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What is precipitation?

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It is when water falls from the sky

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What is temperate climate?

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Have four seasons, some of the countries which have a temperate climate are Turkey and Pennsylvania

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What is a tropical climate?

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Places close to the equator where the sun is hot all year round

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What drives our weather?

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The sun

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What keeps our earth warm?

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The atmosphere

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What is the placed called where weather activity takes place and is 8 miles thick. This layer is never still?

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Tropisphere

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Who invented meteorology?

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Aristotle

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What measures the air's pressure or weight?

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Barometer

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What occurs more frequently when strong winds blow?

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Playground fights

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When are the sun's rays most powerful?

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noon

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Is there ever any new water on our plane?

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No, it comes from a cycle that continues to go round and round

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Is there always rain in the air?

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Yes

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What forms in cumulus clouds as water vapor and gets heavy then falls as rain?

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Condensation

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What falling from clouds during storms causes 300 million dollars worth of damage?

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Hail stones

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What occurs when warm damp air from the tropics combines with cool air from the poles?

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Depression

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What are the edges of depressions called?

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Fronts

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What is a swirl of water that picks up water as it moves over the ocean and when it hits land it lets it go?

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Hurricane

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How many volts are in each lightening rod?

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A million

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How many times hotter is each lightning bolt compared to the surface of the sun?

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Five times hotter

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Weather and climates are mostly defined by what two things?

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1. Temperature
2. Moisture

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Different types of climates help to create what two things?

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1. Plants
2. Animals

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What is climate defined as?

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Climate is the pattern of weather over a period of time.

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What causes climates to change? (Two things)

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1. Natural changes: volcanoes, natural disasters, changes in energy of the sun
2. Changes caused by people: gas, oil, and coal add CO2 to air

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Three main influences on climate:

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1. How hot or cold is it on an average in a region's different seasons

2. How much precipitation the region gets every month

3. How much the temperature and precipitation varies from day to day and season to season

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Polar Climates are covered

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In snow and ice all year long

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Polar Climates tend to be

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Dry

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Polar Climates lack

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Lack moisture in the air and air is cold

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Polar Climates have

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High latitude regions

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The sun is never........in polar climates

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High enough to do melting

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In temperate climates there are NO

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extremes in temperature or precipitation

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Temperate climates are made up of

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Oceans and mountains

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Temperate climates have changes in

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Changes in seasons are usually mild

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Temperate climates lie..

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Between tropic and polar regions

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Temperate climate can have unpredictable

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Unpredictable weather. The sun is at different levels of throughout the season.

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Tropical Climates is when the sun

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is hot all year round

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Rain in a tropical climate

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Rains heavily and is hot and humid

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Tropical climates are home to

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Rain forests

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Tropical climates are close to

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The equator

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Nights and days in tropical climates

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Warm nights and very hot days

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What is convection?

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Hot air travels up and cold air settles down

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What is atmosphere

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The air that surrounds the earth. It acts like a blanket to keep the temperature from getting too hot or too cold.

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What do air currents do?

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Move air around the world and help move the ocean water

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What direction do air currents in the United States move?

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West to East

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What will long term changes in air current change?

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Climate

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What does Moisture create in the air?

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Clouds, rain, snow

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What cycle keeps moving at all times?

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Water cycle

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What kind of energy does every climate begin with?

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Solar energy

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Before solar energy reaches the earth, what must it pass through?

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The atmosphere

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How much light does the atmosphere reflect and absorb

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1/2 reflected
1/2 reaches the Earth

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When solar energy reaches the earth, the surface releases heat and what does it do to the air?

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It warms the air.

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True/ False The ocean absorbs and releases heat slowly

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True

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True/ False It takes less time to get cold and less time to get warm in cities near oceans

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False

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Which coast is most affected by the climate?

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Pacific coast is most affected because wind travels west to east

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On the Pacific coast, does the land absorb and release heat quickly or slowly?

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