Unit 3 Climate and Ecoystems

The condition of the air, sky, and temperature at a specific time. HINT: You might check this daily by watching the news.

• Climate
• Weather

The average weather of a place over many years.

• Weather
• Climate
• Ecosystems

Water that falls to the ground in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

• Climate
• Weather
• Precipitation
• Elevation

The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat, thereby warming the Earth

• Ecosystems
• Physics
• Greenhouse Gas
• Liquid Oxygen

Increase in the average temperatures on Earth; due in part from carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere by humans burning fossil fuels

• Heat index
• Heatwave
• Global Warming
• Precipitation

Warm climate zone that receives direct or nearly direct sunlight year round; warm to hot year round

• Polar Zone
• Temperate Zone
• Tropical Zone

Moderate climate zone between the polar zones and the tropics; cold winters, hot summers, moderate fall and spring

• Polar Zone
• Temperate Zone
• Tropical Zone

The North or South Pole and the surrounding regions; cool to bitterly cold year round

• Temperate Zone
• Polar Zone
• Tropical Zone

Another factor that affects temperature and climate - as the elevation increases the temperature decreases

• Precipitation
• Wind Speed
• Altitude

90 Degrees North Latitude

• North Pole
• South Pole
• Equator
• Prime Meridian