What is the big deal with weather and climate?

1. What is the big deal with weather and climate?

2. Weather _________changes in air that take place over a short time

3. Climate • Usual, __________pattern of weather in an area over a long time

4. Tropical area located in the tropics( 23.5 degrees north and 23.5 degrees south latitude) ______all year

5. Tropical Savanna broad _________with few trees

6. Marine West Coast mid-latitude coastal climate with mild, rainy _______and ______summers

7. Mediterranean mid-latitude coastal climate with mild, rainy ________and hot, dry _______

8. Humid Continental inland mid-latitude climate with cold, snowy ________and short, hot _______

9. Humid Subtropical rainy mid-latitude climate with hot, humid _______and short, mild _______

10. Subarctic high _______climate with bitter cold winters and near-freezing summers

11. Tundra vast treeless plain with ________in the high latitudes

12. Steppe Another large steppe area (prairie) is located in the central United States and western Canada. The High Plains steppe is the westernmost part of the Great Plains region, and the Channeled Scablands in Southern British Columbia and Washington State. partly ____grasslands and prairies surrounding many deserts

13. Acid Rain rain containing high amounts of chemical ________ Branches from a tree in Germany’s Black Forest show needle loss and yellowed boughs caused by acid rain.

14. Deforestation widespread _______of forests Clear-cutting in the Amazon rainforest Slash-and-burn agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon

15. Greenhouse Effect buildup of certain ______in the atmosphere that , like a greenhouse, hold more of the sun’s warmth • A schematic representation of the exchanges of energybetweenouter space, the Earth's atmosphere, and the Earth's surface. Theability of the atmosphere to capture and recycle energy emitted by the Earth surface is the defining characteristic of the greenhouse effect.

16. Rain Shadow _____area on the inland side of coastal mountains The Atacama Desert in Chile lies in the rain shadow of the Andes.

17. Latitude location ______or ______of the Equator, measured by imaginary lines (parallels) that are numbered in degrees north or south

18. Longitude location ______or ______of the Prime Meridian, measured by imaginary lines( meridians) numbered in degrees east or west

19. Desert is a landscape that receives almost ____precipitation

20. Icecap is a high latitude region of a planet that is coveredwith _____ • Figure CS.39 South Pole Station, 1978. (Courtesy NOAA)