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1
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A climate that is strongly affected by an ocean.

A

Maritime Climate.

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A climate that is not directly affected by an ocean.

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Continental climate.

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A breeze that blows from over the water toward land in the afternoon.

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Sea Breeze

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A narrow band of fast moving high-altitude air.

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Jet stream

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The apparent deflection of an object due to the earths rotation.

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Coriolis effect

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A large volume of air with uniform moisture and tempiture.

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Air mass.

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Air masses interact

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Weather fronts

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What is climate?

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The long-term avarage of weather conditions.

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What is weather?

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Day to day outside condition.

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What are the five sphere for earths systems?

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Atmospher, Cryosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere.

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What is the atmosphere?

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The air around us.

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What is the Biosphere?

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Everything organic.

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What is the Hydrosphere?

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Liquid

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What is the cryosphere?

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Frozen water, snow, ice, glaciers.

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What is the lithosphere?

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Earths outermost layer.

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What is the primary factor that influences climate at a given location?

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latitude.

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17
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Where is the solar radiation most intense on earth?

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At the Equator.

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At what degrees do the sun rays hit earths surface at the tropic zone?

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90 degrees.

19
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At what degrees do the suns rays hit earths surface at the temprate zone?

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50 degrees.

20
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At what degrees do the sun rays hit earths surface at the polar zones?

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30 degrees.

21
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What zone are we located in?

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Temperate zone.

22
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What other factors determine climate?

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Precipitation, Mountains, and Water.

23
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What is the windward side like on a mountain range?

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Cool and wet, a lot of vegitation.

24
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What is the leeward side of a mountain like?

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Warm and dry air, little to no vegitation.

25
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Which climate zone and what type of vegitation does Colorado have?

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War semi-arid, and grassland

26
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Increase in the average temperatures of earths near-surface air and oceans.

A

Global warming.

27
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The warming of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of western south america that every 3-10 years.

A

El Nino

28
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The opposite of El Nino, occurs when trade winds in the pacific are usually strong and surface water is colder.

A

La Nina.

29
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What are two things that effect gravitational forces?

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mass and distance.

30
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What diameiter of the earth is longer?

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Equator.

31
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What is the distance between the two diameters?

A

42 killomiters

26 miles

32
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What does a magnetic feild do for earth?

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Protects us from harmful radiation from the sun.

33
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what magnetic pole is in the northern hemmesphere?

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South magnetic pole.

34
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Can the magnetic poles flip?

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Yes they can, they can happen up to every 200 years but its been 700 years sense the last flip.

35
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What is the flipping of the magnetic poles called?

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Magnetic reversal.

36
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What is a magnetic sphere?

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deflects harmful radiation from the sun.

37
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How are the aruoras created?

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When electrically charged particals collide with attoms in the atmosphere.

38
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What is the scientific name of the northern lights?

A

Aurora borealis.

39
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What is the scientic name of the southern lights?

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Aurora austalis.

40
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What hemisphere are the aurora borealis in?

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Northern.

41
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What hemisphere is the auror austalis in?

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Southern.

42
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When is earth closest to the sun?

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Early January. 147 million killomiters away.

43
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When is earth farthest from the sun?

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Early July. 152 million killomiters away.

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