How does volcanic activity affect climate? Are these effects examples of short-term or long-term climatic change?

How do volcanic eruptions affect climate? Use a labelled diagram in your answer.

Describe What are seasons? What causes them?

What is desertification?

A. when a desert changes to some other environment

B. when a desert suffers increased erosion due to loss of plants

C. when grasslands or some other ecology is converted into a desert

D. the deposition of one layer of desert sand over another

Explain how El Nino might affect weather in California and along the Gulf Coast.

Identify causes of long-term climate change.

Landslides and volcanic eruptions can cause a tsunami by:

A. causing ground shaking

B. causing large winds and fast-moving pyroclastic flows

C. causing a large mass of rock to catastrophically displace the water

D. forming large gas bubbles under water

E. heating up the water, causing it to expand

Compare and contrast temperatures in the tropics, temperate zones, and polar zones.

Why are there more tornado-producing storms in flat plains than in mountainous areas?

Identify the characteristics of a severe storm.

Identify What are some limits associated with the use of normals?

Most large earthquakes on subduction zones occur because of:

A. warming of cold oceanic crust

B. melting of cold oceanic crust

C. melting of the mantle

D. energy released in erupting volcanoes

E. faulting along the plate boundary

Describe two factors that cause variations in climate.

Evaluate the evidence of past glaciers that can be found on Earth today.