Climate Vocab

What factors do NOT affect climate?

• Humidity
• Weather
• Pollution
• Temperature

Define Elevation

• The height of surface landforms above sea level
• How high something is
• When an elevators flys off and explodes
• the distance north or south of the equator

Define Latitude

• How high one is above sealevel
• Average weather in an area
• The distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees
• the distance west or east of the Prime Meridian measured in degrees

Define Weather.

• State of the atmosphere at a given time
• How Zeus is feeling
• the average condition of the atmosphere in one area
• streamlike movements of water

Define climate.

• The state of the atmosphere at a given time.
• Weather over a long time.
• winds that blow mainly from one direction
• average weather in an area over a long period of time

Define prevailing winds.

• wind that blows west
• Winds that blow mainly from one direction
• wind that blows east
• southern winds

Define surface currents.

• Rivers deep underwater
• Waves
• Stream like movements of water that occur at or near the surface of water
• Something that happens currently on the surface