1) Climate Change

Question 1

What is climate? (3)

Answer 1

• Climate is weather over many years
• Climate is the average weather/
• regular patterns/seasons

Question 2

What is weather? (2)

Answer 2

• Weather describes what is happening outside at a guven moment
• Weather can change quickly

Question 3

How is the Eartg’s climate changing? (2)

Answer 3

• It’s not necessarily getting warmer everywhere

- Climate change can cause extreme + unpredictable weather

Question 4

What are transision zones? (4)

Answer 4

• A large are that changes gradually
• The region changes from one to another
• But forests don’t suddenly change into desserts
• They possibly change to a grassland, to a semi-desert over time

Question 5

What is an ecosystem? (4)

Answer 5

• An ecosystem is an interaction between plants, animals, soil and climate
• within a demarcated area
• It develops an ecological system called an ecosystem
• Ecosystem = selections of plants + animals in their own environment

Question 6

What are biomes? (3)

Answer 6

• The largest ecosystems are called biomes
• It’s a large area housing different plants + animals
• Ecosystems relate to distribution of climate regions