Climate And Weather

Sire BahStanley Mei

Peter LeeTony JiangJackson Ye

Ocean

• Covers 70% of the earth’s surface

• The Ocean drives the atmospheric circulate, by heating the atmosphere

• The Ocean dominates the earth’s hydrological cycle

• The Ocean stores and transport heat

• The Ocean influences regional climate

Ocean Gyre• A gyre is any type of swirling vortex.

A Ocean gyre is the movement of the ocean waves. Ocean waters above the equator swirl clockwise, and below the equator counter-clockwise.

Ocean Current

Ocean Currents

Ocean Currents

Ocean Currents

Earth-Sun System

Grassland

• Grasslands include Temperate Grasslands or Savannas.

• There are grasslands on all continents except on the poles.

• Grasslands are characterized by there large areas of green, mainly dominated by grass or flowers with very little trees.

Desert

• Deserts cover 1/5 of the surface of the earth and occur where rainfall is very little.

• There are four types of deserts - Hot and dry, Semiarid desert, Coastal desert, Cold desert.

• Very little animals or plants inhabit this area

Mountain

• They make up one-fifth of the world's landscape, and provide homes to at least one-tenth of the world's people, as well as the majority of fresh water in the world.

• All mountain ecosystems have one major characteristic in common--rapid changes in altitude, climate, soil, and vegetation over very short distances.

Tundra

• Tundra’s are the coldest place on earth.• It is characterized by its frost-molded

landscapes, extremely low temperatures, little precipitation, poor nutrients, and short growing seasons.

• Beneath the tundra is permafrost. Permafrost is a permanent frozen layer of soil.

Forest

• Forests occupy approximately one-third of Earth's land area, account for over two-thirds of the leaf area of land plants, and contain about 70% of carbon present in living things.

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Credits: Sire Bah, Tony Jiang, Peter Lee, Stanley Mei, Jackson Ye

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