Climate, Weather and Life

What is climate?

• An animal

• Weather for a short period of time

• Patterns and averages of weather over no years

• patterns and averages of weather over many years

What is weather?

• A banana

• Shirt term chances in temperature, precipitation, clouds, and wind from day to day, or minute to minute

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Earth's average temperature is determined by what?

• The amount of money you have

• The amount of fish in the world

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

How many main climate zones are there?

• Forty-two

• Three

• Fourteen

• One hundred seventy-four

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

______, is the patterns and averages of temperature, precipitation, clouds, and wind over many years

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Ocean currents are...

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

• a perfume scent

• caused by fish moving

• driven and aped by patterns of warming and colding, by winds, and by locations of the fish's uncle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

______, 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

• Regionel clymate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

_______ 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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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

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

A result of rapid climate change includes...

• mass extinction

• over population

• alien invasions

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4