Question | Answer |
Climatology | the study of climate and its variability, analyzes long term weather patterns over time and space and the controls that produce Earth's diverse climatic conditions. |
Climatic regions | one type of climatic analysis that locates area of similar weather statistics and groups them into... |
Climates greatly influence... | ecosystems, the natural, self regulating communities formed by plants and animals in their nonliving environment. |
The principal elements of climate are.. | insolation, temperature, pressure, air masses, and precipitation. |
Temperature | form a coupling of dynamic forces in the atmosphere to Earth's pattern of atmospheric pressure and resulting global wind and ocean systems. |
Moisture | the remaining input to climate which is represented by precipitation in all its forms. |
tow principal climatic components | temperature and precipitation |
Classification | the process of ordering or grouping data or phenomena into related classes. |
Classification Categories | the basis of any classification system is the choice of criteria or causative factors used to draw line between categories. |
Sic basic climate categories | Tropical, Mesothermal, microthermal, Polar,Highland, and Dry. |
Tropical | rain forest, monsoon, savanna |
Mesothermal | humid subtropical, marine west coast, mediterranean |
microthermal | humid continental, subarctic |
Polar | tundra, ice caps and ice sheets, polar marine |
Highland | only one climate category is based on moisture efficiency as well as temperature |
Dry | arid deserts. |