What Determines Climate?

What is the difference between weather and climate?

• Weather is what we collected throughout the month of December. Climate is what google tells us.

• Climate includes only average temperature and average precipitation. Weather includes much more than that.

• Weather is the conditions at any particular time, while climate is the pattern of weather that occurs in an area over a long period of time.

• Weather is the patternof weather over a long period of time while climate is the current conditions.

Why do we have seasons?

• The fact that the Earth is heated unevenly causes the seasons.

• The tilt of the Earth and its elliptical orbit around the sun cause the seasons.

• We have seasons because of the Earth's tilt.

• We have seasons because of plants.

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What are some factors that affect climate? Choose all that apply.

• wind currents

• elevation

• mars

• equator

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Uneven heating of the Earth by the sun causes __________.

• precipitation

• volcanoes

• earthquakes

• wind

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Which of the following statements is true about the way Earth's materials heat?

• Water and land heat at the same rate but cool differently.

• Land heats slowly, but water heats quickly.

• Land heats quickly and cools quickly.

• Water heats quicker than land.

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What is the primary reason that air above the equator is heated more than other places?

• The equator receives the most direct sunlight.

• Sunlight is more spread out at the equator.

• There is more land around the equator, so it heats quicker.

• It is summer year-round at the equator.

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Why is it cooler at the Earth's poles?

• Sunlight hits the poles less direct than other places on the Earth.

• It is more cloudy around the poles.

• The glaciers keep the climate cold.

• The North and South Poles are dark all year.

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Unequal heating of the Earth's systems causes patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that ....

• determine the paths of hurricanes.

• determine regional climates.

• determine ocean salinity (saltiness).

• determine whether or not we have school.

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The Global Conveyor Belt is ... (Choose all that apply.)

• heat energy being transferred from Africa to Europe.

• heat energy being transferred fronm the equator to the poles.

• deep ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity.

• water cycling from surface currents to deep water currents.

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How are convection currents produced in the air?

• Wind causes convection currents by stirring up the air.

• Warm air rises and cold air moves in to take its place.

• Cold air rises and warm air descends.

• Hurricanes and tornadoes cause them.

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