1. Environmental Science FIRST EDITION Andrew Friedland Rick Relyea © 2012 W. H. Freeman and Company CHAPTER 4 Global Climates and Biomes

2. Food, Drought and Famine

3. Weather -v- Climate

4. What influences weather and climate? 1.Unequal heating of Earth 2.Atmospheric convection currents 3.Rotation and Coriolis Effect 4.Earth’s orbit and tilted axis 5.Circulation of ocean waters

5. Studying Climate and Weather

6. 5 Layers of Atmosphere N 2, O 2 & H 2 0 Ozone !!

7. Solar Radiation in Thermosphere

8. Unequal Heating of Earth 1.Angle of sun through atmosphere 2.Angle of sunlight across surface 3.Albedo

11. Why does it rain so much at the equator?

17. Fig. 6-9 b & c p. 1117 Fig. 6-11 p. 118 Air Circulation & Biomes

22. ENSO

23. Effects of ENSO 2014 1998 2010 & 2013 2005

29. Tundra

30. Taiga

31. Temperate Rainforest

32. Temperate Seasonal Forest

33. Chaparral

34. Temperate Grassland

35. Tropical Rainforest

36. Tropical Seasonal Forest & Savannah

37. Subtropical Desert