Earth Science Chapter 17: Climate

What is the rise in the average global surface temperature? 

What is one cause of deforestation? 

How can carbon dioxide be reduced in the atmosphere? 

What are seasons caused by? 

Changes in the shape of Earth's orbit around the sun_________________. 

What does the greenhouse effect cause? 

Which of the following might be connected to "temperate climates"? 

What is a period of reduced activity that some mammals undergo in the winter? 

What do geological records indicate? 

What is the natural heating process of Earth caused by gases trapping heat in the atmosphere? 

What is the pattern of weather in a region? 

What is the region that extends from the pols to 66 1/2 degrees north and south latitudes? 

What is the destroying and cutting down of trees? 

What are the areas between the tropics and polar zones? 

Why can planetary cooling happen? 

What is released into the atmosphere when gas, oil and coal are burned? 

What is a major influence on the climate? 

What are moderate temperatures a characteristic of? 

Climate is determined by averaging ___________ over along period of time. 

An animal that hibernates _____________________. 

What studies is the climate classification system based on? 

What is any structure or behavioral feature that helps an organism survive in its environment? 

What is a climate event that starts in the tropical Pacific Ocean and sets off changes? 

What are opposite extremes of day and night associated with? 

What are short-term periods of climate change caused by variations in daylight & temperature? 

What region that receives the most solar radiation because the sun is almost directly over? 

All of the following are examples of behavioral adaptations EXCEPT...

El Nino causes...

What happens when there are 24 consecutive hours of night? 

Why do many scientists think that corals are dying? 

What can very few species adapt to? 

With regard to the ice ages, _______________________.