1. Warm Up 10 4/6 Write about your spring break.
How did BIOLOGY play into your spring break?

2. 4.1 The Role of Climate Notes
Weather: day-to-day condition
Climate: average, year-after-year condition
Weather
Los Angeles
Alaska
Australia
Climate
Warm-hot, cooler winters
long cool winters, short summers
desert, semi dry

5. The Role of Climate
Climate is important in shaping ecosystems. Species of plants and animals vary in their adaptations to environmental conditions as well as their tolerances for conditions outside of their normal ranges. 5

6. Climate is caused by Trapping of heat by atmosphere Latitude
Transport of heat by winds and ocean currents
Precipitation
Shape & elevation of land

7. 1) Greenhouse Effect: natural situation in which heat is retained by layer of gases (Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor)

9. a. Earth is tilted on its axis which causes solar radiation to strike part of the Earth at angles that vary through the year
2) Latitude

11. Polar zones- sun strikes at low angle, cold (North/South Pole)
Temperate zones- hot to cold, most effected by seasons
Tropical zones- direct sunlight year round, always warm

12. 3) Heat Transport Unequal heating drives winds & ocean currents
Warm air rises, cold air sinks

15. Similar patterns in ocean currents
Water is also moved by winds
Ocean currents warm/cool air above it