By: Robby Hudson Table 7 12/14/12 Period 2. We will know the different climate zones and how they affect the environment of the Earth.

By: Robby Hudson

Table 7

12/14/12

Period 2

CLIMATE ZONES

WWKWe will know the different climate zones and how they affect the environment of the Earth.

A Tropical Climate is characterized by high temperatures, high humidity, and large amounts of precipitation.

Generally found along the equator.

This category has two different types of climates, Tropical wet (rainforests) and Tropical dry (savannas).

Tropical

(Tropical Dry) (Tropical Wet)

FUN FACT: A rainforest receives an average of 8 inches of rain each month.

A Polar Climate is characterized by little or no vegetation and long, freezing winters.

These climates are most common around the poles

This category has three different types of climates, Tundra, Ice, and Highland (mountains).

Polar

A Dry Climate is characterized by little rainfall and a vast range of daily temperatures.

This category has two types of climates, Semiarid and Arid.

Dry

A Continental Climate is characterized by hot summers, cold winters, and little rain.

They are usually located in the interiors of large land masses.

Continental

K.S What three traits describe a tropical climate?

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Works Cited

BOOKS National Geographic Society. The National Geographic Desk Reference, National Geographic

Society, 1999, pg.112-120

WEBSITES “Climate”, “www.meteorologyclimate.com,12/13/12,http://meteorologyclimate.com Rae, Kara. ”Information on the Polar Zone”, ”www.ehow.com, 12/13/12

“http://www.ehow.com/facts_5647016_information-polar-zone.html FAO – SDRN – Agrometeorology Group – 1997. “World Climates”,

“www.blueplanetbiomes.com”,12/13/12, ”http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/climate.htm “Dictionary”, “www.bing.com, 12/13/12, http://www.bing.com/Dictionary/search?

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Ice cores By: Erika Lynn

W.W.K.We will know how the research of ice cores has helped us determine the changes in Earth’s climate over time.

Vocab: Climate: description of aggregate weather conditions.

Ice Cores: method of measuring historic climate conditions by extracting ancient ice in cylinders.

The past few decades, scientists have established the life of a climate system on Earth. The sun and the other parts of Earth(the oceans, the atmosphere, the land masses, the snow and ice masses.)

Changes in any one part of the system affect all the others, and in the end cause a change in climate.

Humans production of CO2, nitrous oxide, sulfuric and nitric acids, "greenhouse" gases, as well as our impact on the ecosystems.

Our activities could raise the average temperature from few - several degrees centigrade over the next few decades, causing altering weather patterns. Then creates a probable cause for severe, or catastrophic, disruption of the Earth's living and climate systems.

When snow falls it carries the compounds that are in the air at the time, compounds like: sulfate, nitrate, and even dust, radioactive fallout, and trace metals.

Video http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/environmental-change/

measuring-climate-change/ice-cores/index.html

K.S.What is the significance of ice cores?

The Oceans’ Effect On Climate ChangeBy; Jaren Ferguson

The Water Cycle The Water Cycle is the continuous movement of

water on, above and below the surface of the earth. It has four major steps; evaporation, condensation,

precipitation and collection. It is directly responsible for our weather.

The Water Cycle

Oceans and ClimateThe oceans are able to store energy and heat from the sun, producing average weather and also extreme and out-of-the-ordinary weather.

How the Wind Affects the OceanThe wind has a direct affect on ocean currents causing the ocean to move the way it does.

The wind also causes weather through a process called Upwelling.

Upwelling is when warm, energy rich water on the surface trades places with cold water on the ocean floor.

Upwelling

K.S. Name a process of the water cycle

Video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hehXEYkDq_Y

Global WarmingBy: Devante Booker

WWKWe will know how the effects of global warming have done to the climate on the earth.

K.S. Name 2 gases that trap the suns heat and radiate it back to

the earth’s suface.

Our Climate Our climate has helped us for millions of years and has been

evolving constantly, even today’s time. The climate we live in helps us and the environment we live

in, in a lot of ways such as clean air, vegetation, and of course to help us survive.

Global Warming in our world In all the years of living on this earth our climate has helped

us survive for so long but there is one the thing that has corrupted our environment, Global Warming!!

Global Warming is the increase of the earth’s average surface temperature due largely to a buildup of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere.

The components of Global Warming Less than 1% of the earth’s atmosphere is composed of

greenhouse gases. These gases are: Water Vapor(Co2) Methane(CH4) Halocarbons(HFC’s, CFC’s, HCFC’s) Ozone(O3) Nitrous Oxide(N2O) These gases trap in the heat and radiate it back to the

earth’s surface. This is commonly called the Greenhouse Effect

What is Global Dimming? Because of global warming, NASA’s scientists have tried to

figure out how to maybe slow the global warming process down. So far, for this situation they have called it Global Dimming which happens when there is to much particulate matter in the atmosphere that it screens out incoming radiation, causing a cooling effect.

Another aspect that they have figured out is because of global dimming, it may counteract some effects of global warming and because of this the climate will change again.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/environment/global-warming-environment/global-warming-101