Climate Flashcards
What is climate
Climate is the average weather of a place and its two factors are : precipitation and weather
Weather
Weather is a temperature and precipitation of a place for a long period of tim
Altitude/elevation
Altitude is how high you are in the atmosphere
Elevation is how above or below you are from sea level
Gulf Stream
It is a ocean current that runs along the east coast of the United States and across the Atlantic Ocean . It brings warm water from the equator to the north poles
Ocean currents
A ocean current is a constant movement of ocean water
Tropical zones
It is a zone if the world that goes from 0° latitude to 30° latitude and has a warm wet climate
Temperate zones
It is where we live and we get different climates. our latitudes are 30-60
Polar zones
It is very cold and wet and gets barely any sunlight. 60-90° is there latitude
Revolution
It shows the 4 seasons and that is why we have different weather
Axis
This is a line tilted at 23.5 degrees and it effects how much sunlight we get and that happens and we get seasons
Latitude
It shows how far north or south a place is from a equator. They are horizontal lines also separate the climate zones
Troposphere
Its a layer in the atmospere.This is where all the weather occurs
Precipitation
Is weather form as solid or liquid such as snow rain hail or sleet