Climate Study Guide

What is climate?

• The average weather over many years

• Daily weather in a specific location

• Weather occurrences around the world

• The average temperature of all locations on earth

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Which of the following does not affect climate?

• Closeness to large body of water

• Distance north or south of the equator

• Elevation or altitude

• Wind speeds

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What is the difference between climate and weather?

• Climate describes the weather conditions at night, while weather describes the conditions during the daytime.

• Weather averages the weather conditions in a specific place over a long period of time, while Climate describes the state of the atmosphere at a specific moment in time

• Climate is the average weather conditions in a specific place over a long period of time, while weather describes the state of the atmosphere at a specific moment in time.

• There is not a difference between climate and weather.

The layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth and where weather occurs is called the

• mesophere

• exosphere

• stratosphere

• troposphere

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What is climate change?

• a fast change in temperature over a year or over a season

• a fast change in temperature over a year or over a season

• a change in the amount of sea ice from one year to the next

• a change in the weather patterns over a long period, such as decades, centuries, or longer.

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Where on earth does climate change create changes?

• ocean waters

• atmosphere/air

• land

• all of the above

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How do greenhouse gases affect climate?

• create heat

• hold heat in the atmosphere

• destroy ozone

• create volcano eruptions

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When land ice melts, which areas of land are most at risk?

• inland

• coastal

• areas far from the water

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How can we learn gases that existed in the atmosphere in the past through

• ice core sampling

• asking people who lived a long time ago

• carbon fossils

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Carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide are examples of

• ozone gases

• green gases

• greenhouse gases

• solar gases

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