Climate, Weather and Life

What is climate?

• A series of events driven by weather

• Weather for a short period of time

• Patterns and averages of weather over no years

• patterns and averages of weather over many years

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What is weather?

• averages and patterns resulting from global warming

• long term changes in temperature, precipitation, clouds, and surface winds over many years

• Short term changes in temperature, precipitation, clouds, and wind from day to day, or minute to minute

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Earth's average temperature is determined by what?

• how close the Earth is to the Sun

• the amount of cloud cover in the atmosphere

• The balance between the amount of heat that stays in the atmosphere and the amount of heat that is lost to space

How many main climate zones are there?

• twenty-four

• Three

• seven

• One hundred seventy-four

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Ocean currents are...

• driven and shaped by patterns of warming and cooling, by winds, and by the locations of the continents.

• the movement of water in the oceans due to the rotation of the Earth

• Always move from East to West

• driven by salinity, depth, and changes in ocean traffic

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______, is shaped by latitude, by the transport of heat and moisture by winds and ocean currents, and by geographic features such as mountain ranges, large bodies of water, and ocean currents.

• Regional climate

• Weather

• Lightning

• Regional weather

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_______ involves changes in temperature, clouds, winds, patterns and amounts of precipitation, and the frequency and severity of extreme weather events.

• Ocean currents

• Regional climate

• Climate change

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Non human causes of climate change are...

• changes in solar energy

• variations in earth's orbit

• meteorite impacts

• changes in the distributions of continents and oceans

• all of the above

A result of rapid climate change includes...

• mass extinction

• over population

• alien invasions

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What is a description of climate?

• Summer is wetter and warmer than winter.

• A hurricane is likely to reach southeast Florida this afternoon.

  
  

• The air today is more humid than it was yesterday.

• No rain is likely to fall for the next week.

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