1) Climate Change Flashcards
1
Q
What is climate? (3)
A
- Climate is weather over many years
- Climate is the average weather/
- regular patterns/seasons
2
Q
What is weather? (2)
A
- Weather describes what is happening outside at a guven moment
- Weather can change quickly
3
Q
How is the Eartg’s climate changing? (2)
A
- It’s not necessarily getting warmer everywhere
- Climate change can cause extreme + unpredictable weather
4
Q
What are transision zones? (4)
A
- 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
5
Q
What is an ecosystem? (4)
A
- 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
6
Q
What are biomes? (3)
A
- The largest ecosystems are called biomes
- It’s a large area housing different plants + animals
- Ecosystems relate to distribution of climate regions
