Miss Hanlon 6th Grade Comp Sci Chapter 6 Climate

Climate is the weather____.

One cause of ____ may be deforestation.

The warm periods that occur between ice ages are called

You noticed that the asphalt felt hotter than the concrete even though it is old and faded.Why?

How do clouds made up of small droplets help cool the climate?

Which of the following is away a 13 year old in America can help control greenhouse gases?

Which of the following materials do scientists NOT use to study past climates? 

Which receives the most solar radiation?

Being in an urban area versus a rural does not have an effect on the climate of the area. 

What is one benefit of warm temperatures brought about by climate change?

Which of the following is a description of a climate?

Weather of a region describes the region’s average temp. & precipitation over a long time. 

The rise in Earth’s average surface temp. during the past 10 yrs is called global warming. 

Why are buildings in polar climates sometimes built on stilts?

Climatologists use a classification system developed in 1918 by____.

Aerosols are tiny liquid or solid particles. 

Which of the following does NOT affect the climate of an area?

During El Niño years, ____.

During the last ice age, about one fourth of the northern hemisphere was covered with ice.

A climate classification system divides regions according to ____.

During El Niño, trade winds that blow east to west weaken and sometimes ____.

H = high-pressure, L = low-pressure and the arrows = wind direction. What's happening?

Which of the following is NOT an example of a microclimate?

How do the changes in concentration of carbon dioxide compared to the global temperature?

During El Niño what happens to the weather on the western coast of South America?

Cold waves occur when a large continental tropical air mass stays over a region.

Global climate models make short-term global predictions about the climate. 

Jill lives where it's cold year-round & there is minimal precipitation. The climate is ?

When a hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun it experiences its summer.

The heat is transferred to your hand above the burner by radiation. 

A heated iron has chemical energy.

Greenhouse gases keep Earth cool enough for living things to survive. 

Look at the information given regarding Leadville & Burlington, why is it colder in Leadville? 

Why is it difficult to test the accuracy of global climate models (GCMs)?

A major influence on climate is ____.

During which process do trees remove carbon dioxide from the air?

Which area has not seen a decrease in precipitation as a result of recent climate change?

A gas that increases the greenhouse effect is ____.

Earth’s air temp. showed a nearly 0.4°C decrease from 1900 to around 1910. 

When gas, oil, and coal are burned, ____ is added to the atmosphere.

Days of the year when the # of daylight hrs almost equals the # of night time hrs is Equinoxes.