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depending on the climate you get determines the _ u get
climate/weather
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what has lots of deserts on the equator?
tropic of cancer
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What line near the equator has a lots of tropics and greens?
latitude zero
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warm air always goes _, cold air always goes _
up, down
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what precipitation is where the storms move through? What does this signal?
frontal, cold fronts
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what precipitation is the pop up rainstorms?
conventional
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what are the three types of precipitation?
Conventional, orographic, and frontal
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large cities tend to have _ temps then the surrounding areas, creating what are called _
higher, microclimates
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nearby landforms, such as large _ areas, inland _, and _, can influence climate
desert, mountains, forests
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_ can have colder climates than lower elevations
Higher elevations
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_ tend to have milder climates while _ areas of continents in the _ hemisphere have _ climates with _ winters and _ summers
coastal areas, central, Northern, continental, cold, hot
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large bodies of _ affect climates bc the _ temp changes much more _ than _ temp
water, water, slowly, land
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_, which included all the forms of the water that fall from the atmosphere to the earths surface, affects _
precipitation, climate
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Convection occurs bc _ gases and liquids are _ or _ than the _ gases and liquids, causing lighter material to _ and cooler material to _
warm, lighter, less dense, cool, rise, sink
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Heat is distributed through a process called _.
convection
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sunlight falls most directly near the _
equator
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the earth is tilted on its _ which means that the sunlight strikes _ parts of the earth more differently at _ times of the year.
axis, different, certain
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What is it called when the earth rotates around the sun?
rotation
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How long does it take for one complete orbit around the earth?
1 year
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the earth moves in an almost circular orbit around the _
sun
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what is the movement of the earth on its axis?
rotation
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what traps solar radiation as heat within the atmosphere?
the greenhouse effect
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what is the source of the earths climate?
the sun
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what climate are we?
subtropical
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the term for weather patterns that are typically experiences over an extended period of time.
climate
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the condition of the bottom layer of the earths atmosphere over a short period of time
weather
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