SNES 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Energy, Biome, Ap Environmental Science
17 Nov 2016
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Weather is a local area"s short-term temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind speed, cloud cover, and other physical conditions of the lower atmosphere as measured over hours or days. Climate is an area"s general pattern of atmospheric or conditions measured over long periods of time. 3 factors that determine how air circulates in the lower atmosphere: uneven heating of the earth"s surface by the sun, rotation of the earth on its axis, properties of air water, and land. Allow most visible light and some infrared and ultraviolet radiations from the sun pass through atmosphere. The loss of moisture from the landscape and the resulting semiarid or arid condition on the leeward side of high mountains (see figure 7. 2) Hot and dry most of the year. Have a hard, windblown surface strew with rocks and some sand. Daytime temperatures are high in summer and low in the winter. Sparse vegetation: widely dispersed, drought resistant shrubs and cacti.
