Climate Flashcards

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What is climate

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Climate is the average weather of a place and its two factors are : precipitation and weather

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Weather

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Weather is a temperature and precipitation of a place for a long period of tim

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Altitude/elevation

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Altitude is how high you are in the atmosphere

Elevation is how above or below you are from sea level

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Gulf Stream

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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

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Ocean currents

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A ocean current is a constant movement of ocean water

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Tropical zones

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It is a zone if the world that goes from 0° latitude to 30° latitude and has a warm wet climate

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Temperate zones

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It is where we live and we get different climates. our latitudes are 30-60

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Polar zones

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It is very cold and wet and gets barely any sunlight. 60-90° is there latitude

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Revolution

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It shows the 4 seasons and that is why we have different weather

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Axis

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This is a line tilted at 23.5 degrees and it effects how much sunlight we get and that happens and we get seasons

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Latitude

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It shows how far north or south a place is from a equator. They are horizontal lines also separate the climate zones

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Troposphere

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Its a layer in the atmospere.This is where all the weather occurs

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Precipitation

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Is weather form as solid or liquid such as snow rain hail or sleet

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