Climate Zones

Climate Zones and Factors

What are the main climate regions and what factors effect these regions?

Open Ended

What is the difference between Weather and Climate?

Multiple Choice

Changes from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day

• Climate
• Weather

Multiple Choice

Winters in Maine can reach temperatures below zero.

• Climate
• Weather

Multiple Choice

Average pattern of weather for a particular region

• Climate
• Weather

Multiple Choice

It was 85 degrees yesterday in Miami.

• Climate
• Weather

Multiple Choice

Antarctica is cold all the time. What is it's climate?

• Tropical
• Polar
• Arid/Dry
• Temperate

Multiple Choice

What climate zone is the red area in the picture?

• Polar zone

• Temperate zone

• Tropical zone

Multiple Choice

What climate zone is the green area in the picture?

• Polar zone

• Temperate zone

• Tropical zone

Multiple Choice

The polar zones of the Earth are far northern and far southern, near the poles. Is that true or false?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The temperate zones of the Earth are between the tropics. Is that true or false? 

• True
• False

Open Ended

What climate zone do you believe, we live in?

Poll

Do we live in a high or low elevation?

• high

• low

Multiple Choice

The warm, strong current off the coast of Florida is the 

• Gulf Stream
• California Current
• North Equatorial Current
• Brazil Current

Multiple Choice

Warm ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole
• The South Pole
• The Equator
• Both A and B

Open Ended

How do the Ocean Climate Zones affect weather?

Multiple Choice

Ocean currents have an affect on which two things

• climate and weather
• temperature and density
• land and sea
• equator and poles

Multiple Choice

The California Current (west coast) carries _________ water from canada

• Cold 
• Warm
• Freezing
• Fresh

Multiple Choice

Without question, ENSO events:

• Are preventable

• Eliminate sources of rain

• Are really scary

• Impact everyone on the planet somehow

Multiple Choice

How often do El Nino events occur?

• 2-5 years

• 2-7 years

• 7-10 years

Multiple Choice

Both El Nino and La Nina have this in common

• Influence birds that migrate over the ocean

• Influence rainy / dry weather world wide

• The weather at the polar regions

• The directions that ships travel in the oceans

Multiple Choice

How could La Niña affect weather during the summer in North Carolina?

• It could decrease wind.

• It could increase rainfall.

• It could decrease rainfall.

Multiple Choice

Which lists some effects of El Niño?

• warmer temperatures and more rain

• warmer temperatures and less rain

• cooler temperatures and less rain

Multiple Choice

What is the cause of rising surface temperatures of the Pacific Ocean, drought in the western United States, and flooding on the Pacific coast of South America?

• the Gulf Stream

• the jet stream

• La Niña

• El Niño

Multiple Choice

The leeward side of the mountain in in the

• rain shadow

• way

• river

• rainbow

Multiple Choice

Describe the air on the leeward side of a mountain.

• cold

• warm

• dry

• moist

Multiple Choice

4. Why does cloud formation disappear as the air

moves slowly towards the leeward side of a mountain?

• A. There is too much water vapour.

• B. The temperature becomes lower.

• C. The amount of water vapor is not enough.

• D. The air condenses as it moves to the leeward

  side.

Multiple Choice

Which side of the mountain often receives the most precipitation?

• A. leeward side

• B. Peak

• C. rain shadow

• D. windward side